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Friday, January 15 2010

The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China by Hannah Pakula

By Michael Buening

The Chiangs were an historical anachronism; their reign marked by corruption, ineptitude, and a quasi-Fascist nationalism that could not survive for long.


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