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<p>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 the eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taiwan.</p> <p>An epic historical tapestry, this wonderfully wrought narrative brings to life what Americans should know about China — the superpower we are inextricably linked with — the way its people think and their code of behavior, both vastly different from our own.</p> <p>The story revolves around this fascinating woman and her family: her father, a peasant who raised himself into Shanghai society and sent his daughters to college in America in a day when Chinese women were kept purposefully uneducated; her mother, an unlikely Methodist from the Mandarin class; her husband, a military leader and dogmatic warlord; her sisters, one marriedto Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, the other to a seventy-fifth lineal descendant of Confucius; and her older brother, a financial genius.</p> <p>This was the Soong family, which, along

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Author

Hannah Pakula

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439148938

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

3.7 / 5 (310 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14