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

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Published	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2009]
	Š2009

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
General Collection	DS777.488.C515 P35 2009	AVAILABLE

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xix, 787 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition	First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Note	Map on front and back lining papers.
	Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-761) and index.
Summary	With the powerful Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the 20th century, the story of the founding of modern China ranges from the revolution that swept away the monarchy to the eventual loss to the communists and exile in Taiwan.
Contents	List of principal characters -- 1866-1900 -- 1894-1927 -- 1928-1936 -- 1937-1942 -- 1942-1943 -- 1943-1945 -- 1945-1949 -- 1949-1975 -- 1975-2003.
Subject	Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003.
	Presidents' spouses -- China -- Biography.
	Presidents' spouses -- Taiwan -- Biography.
	Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.
	China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949.
	Taiwan -- History -- 1945-
	Biographies.
Standard #	9781439148938
	1439148937

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