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'The Last Empress' by Hannah Pakula

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Madame Chiang Kai-shek may have acted like royalty, but she was not really China's "Last Empress," as the title of Hannah Pakula's new book declares.
Source: Los Angeles Times

Quoted in 'She Who Must Be Obeyed'

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:18:36 GMT

said in The New York Times:

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

NTCH prepares three year-ending shows for New Year

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:16:50 GMT

The end of 2009 is fast approaching and people are getting ready to greet the upcoming Christmas season and following New Year, and Taiwan's primary national performing arts venue, the National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center, is offering local...
Source: eTaiwan News

Methodist Madame

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:12:32 GMT

Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong May-ling), once First Lady of China, regally performed on the global stage across 75 years until dying at age 106 in 2003. Her latest biography, The Last Empress, by Hannah Pakula, debuted this month.
Source: American Spectator

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:28:51 GMT

Readers eager to understand the paradox of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, once deemed the world’s most powerful woman, may be disappointed by this detailed history.
Source: NJ.com

Flying Tiger Airline's Early Days in China

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:21 GMT

William Willoughby's letter about the Chiang Kai-shek gold shipment (Nov. 19) brought back my memories of flying C-46s for a struggling young Flying Tiger Airline in the early 1950s.
Source: Wall Street Journal

Hannah Pakula: A Biographer Traces the Rise of Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:10:16 GMT

Eleanor Roosevelt said, ‘Madame Chiang can talk about democracy, but she doesn’t quite know how to live it.’ Soong May-ling—a.k.a. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, China’s wartime first lady—was, says biographer Hannah Pakula, “China’s face to the world.” In 194...
Source: Quarterly Journal of Military History

Those Golden Days Flying Out of China

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:54:54 GMT

Regarding Melanie Kirkpatrick’s review of “The Last Empress” by Hannah Pakula (“China’s Mystery Lady,” Bookshelf, Nov. 4): When Chiang Kai-shek decamped to Taiwan in 1949, he took the gold with him.
Source: Wall Street Journal

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:42:43 GMT

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Source: NJ.com

Quoted in 'China's Mystery Lady'

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:41:22 GMT

said in Wall Street Journal:

Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:43:25 GMT

A repairman walks by the late Taiwan leader Chiang Kai-shek's residence which was partially damaged in a fire in Taipei on September 29, 2009.

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:43:00 GMT

Cultural experts assess the damage after a blaze gutted part of late Taiwan leader Chiang Kai-shek's residence in Taipei on September 29, 2009.

WW2 - Chiang Kai Shek

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:48:05 GMT