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Books of The Times: Wartime China’s Elegant Enigma

“The only thing Oriental about me,” Soong Mei-ling once wrote, “is my face.” Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, right, with Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House. Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China Soong Mei-ling, better known to history as Mme. Full Article at The New York Times

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