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 May-ling, wife of modern China wartime leader Chiang Kai-shek.^[1]

Description

Laura Tyson Li called Soong Mayling "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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