The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China /
Hannah Pakula.
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009
- xix, 787 p., [32] p. of plates : ill.
With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei.