Title: Becoming Madame Mao
Description: A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.
Subjects: Married women, Fiction, Stateswomen, History, Spouses of heads of state, Statesmen, Chiang, Ching, 1910-, Fiction, general, China, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, political
Places: China
People: Qing Jiang (1910-), Jiang Qing (1910-), Chʻing Chiang (1910-)
Time periods: 20th century