The last empress
Subtitle: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China
By: Hannah Pakula
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 787
ISBN-13: 9780297859758
Subjects: Presidents' spouses; Biography; History
Description: Beautiful, powerful and sexy, Madame Chiang Kai-shek was at the centre of one of the great dramas of the 20th century: the founding of modern China, beginning with a revolution that swept away more than 2000 years of monarchy, followed by WWII and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei.
Notes: Maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.