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. Full Article at Los Angeles Times

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... Full Article at eTaiwan News

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. Full Article at American Spectator

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. Full Article at NJ.com

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. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

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... Full Article at Quarterly Journal of Military History

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. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

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The grandchildren of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong and his arch rival Chiang Kai-shek have met in Taiwan in a rare encounter mirroring warming ties between Beijing and Taipei. Full Article at The Age

The grandchildren of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong and his arch-rival for control of China, Chiang Kai-shek, have met for the first time. Full Article at BBC News

TAIPEI: The grandchildren of Chinese communist icon Mao Zedong and his arch rival Chiang Kai-shek met in Taiwan in a rare encounter mirroring warming ties between Beijing and Taipei, a report said on Tuesday. Full Article at Channel News Asia

I spent approximately a week's time in Taipei back in the summer of 2002 looking for work as an English Language Teacher in a private school. Full Article at Associated Content

When President Obama arrives in Shanghai tomorrow he will be carrying the baggage of a relationship between communist China and capitalist America that dates back more than 60 years. Full Article at Comment Is Free

Geneva -- The French government has conferred its highest decoration on Tchen Yu-chiou, chairwoman of Taiwan's National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center, for her dedication to promoting Taiwan arts and cultural exchanges with France. Full Article at China Post

Taiwan's young democracy struggles with gangsters By PETER ENAV Associated Press Writer Wally Santana In this Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 photo, Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih delivers his acceptance speech in Taipei, Taiwan. Full Article at KansasCity.com

The ties are particularly important at the county level, where gangsters use their wide-ranging associations to help politicians gain advantage over factional rivals, and position themselves to receive lucrative favors in return. Full Article at The State

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Revelations that Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih traveled abroad with a former gangster have excited great interest among this island's sensation-seeking media, but left few of its 23 million people gaping in surprise. Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune

After its debut this year, the Taiwan International Festival's line-up of presentations next year includes avant-garde creations with fresh perspectives meant to challenge the sensitivities of international and local performing arts lovers. Full Article at eTaiwan News

‘Who lost China?” was the battle cry of a witch-hunt conducted in the US State Department following the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s communists. Full Article at Rootless Cosmopolitan