num_pages: 816
description: With the beautiful and powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century the author of An Uncommon Woman offers the story of the founding of modern China from the revolution that swept away the monarchy to the eventual loss to the communists and exile in Taiwan.
language: English
title: The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
publisher: Simon & Schuster