Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady

Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady is a book written by Laura Tyson Li, a correspondent at Financial Times, also a reporter a South China Morning Post, a biography of Soong Mei-ling, wife of modern China wartime leader Chiang Kai-shek.^[1]

Description

Laura Tyson Li called Soong Mei-ling "one of the most controversial and fascinating woman of the 20th century", who was, beside the wife of China's wartime leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, also his "chief adviser, interpreter, and propagandist". Engaged in a lifelong crusade against the spread of communism in China, with her own sister pitched against her at the opposite end of the political spectrum, because Soong Ching-ling, widow of China's founding father Sun Yet-Sen, had firmly believed that only communism would make China a strong nation.

Having spent years of research on previously classified CIA and diplomatic files, Tyson Li presents "the story of an extraordinary woman who has become a symbol of America's long, vexed love affair with China and China's own struggle to define itself as a world power." ^[2]

Publisher

The book was published by Atlantic Monthly Press on August 31, 2006, with ISBN 0-87113-933-2.

External links

• Reviews & Endorsements
• Review by Deirdre Donahue of USA Today
• Review by Seth Faison of the Los Angeles Times
• More praise for MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Internet video

• http://fora.tv/2007/04/30/China_s_Eternal_First_Lady Speech by author Laura Tyson Li on World Affairs Council, San Francisco

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