The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China / Hannah Pakula.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009Description: xix, 787 p., [32] p. of plates : illISBN:
  • 1439148937 (hbk) :
Subject(s): Summary: 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.
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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.

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