The Last Empress. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek And The Birth Of Modern China

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publisher Place: United States
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 787 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei. Praised by China scholar Jonathan Spence for an impressive amount of telling material, drawn from a wide array of sources,� Pakula presents an epic historical tapestry, a wonderfully wrought narrative that brings to life what Americans should know about Chinathe superpower we are inextricably linked with.

ISBN: 9781439148938