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Author Pakula, Hannah.

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

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 CHIANG    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY CHIANG    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO CHANG    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B CHANG, MAY-LING    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B CHIANG    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 CHIANG, MAY    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B CHIANG    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  951.04 PAK    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B CHIANG MAY-LING P    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-CHIANG, M.    Check Shelf
Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Description xix, 787 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note Map on front and back lining papers.
Bibliography 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-
ISBN 9781439148938
1439148937
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