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Simon & Schuster, November 1995
Hardcover, 704 pages
ISBN-10: 0684808188
ISBN-13: 9780684808185
MySanAntonio, December 20, 2009
...EMPRESS: MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN CHINA SIMON & SCHUSTER, $35 Henry Kissinger has called Hannah Pakula's "definitive" biography of the woman born May-ling Soong "a rare combination of brilliant writing and insightful ...
Los Angeles Times, December 3, 2009
...have acted like royalty, but she was not really China's "Last Empress," as the title of Hannah Pakula's new book declares. Instead, Madame Chiang broke the mold for women in China, where she was the first and most influential first lady ...
New York Times, November 28, 2009
...and Maos forces while extracting huge sums from the Americans. Similarly, in her latest biography, The Last Empress, Hannah Pakula presents Madame Chiang as far more complex, awful and brilliant than we had imagined. Pakula writes ...
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The Last EmpressWith the beautiful, manipulative, powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center, this is the story of the founding of modern China.Read More
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