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The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek And The Birth Of Modern China (2009)

by Hannah Pakula(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1439148937 (ISBN13: 9781439148938)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: The book not only focused on biography, but more so, about Chinese history. It showed how USA had been intertwined with the superpower that's been in China for ages now. Never a history buff so I focused more on personalities. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek had struck me as controversial yet interesting. She is the youngest of the Soong sisters, who were known to be privileged, beautiful and chose to marry rich men. She made her husband even wealthier because of the financial aids she raised from her speeches. Soong Mayling was ahead of her time-influential, educated, manipulative, social climber or maybe a hero. It's either you love her or hate her but you can never ignore such a quintessential woman. She wouldn't be named one of the ten most outstanding women in the time when f... moreear interpolated communism for nothing.
review 2: This epic biography is also a telling of a period of time in China's history from the point of view of one woman in it's history and the role that she played during that period of time. She was quite a piece of work, arguably the most influential woman in the world during WWII. The whole non-Communist faction in China was so rife with corruption, and the story of how they ended up in Taiwan is very revealing. less

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