Dastardly Poltroons
Jonathan Fenby: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 21 October 2010
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China
by Hannah Pakula.
Weidenfeld, 787 pp., £25, January 2010,978 0 297 85975 8 Show More
by Hannah Pakula.
Weidenfeld, 787 pp., £25, January 2010,
“... with the way her husband ran his regime – but she was not an ‘empress’, despite the title of Hannah Pakula’s book. Her authority was minimal compared to the true last empress, the Dowager Cixi, who was the pivotal figure of the late Qing dynasty for half a century before her death in 1908. Meiling’s successor, Madame Mao, had greater influence ... ”
