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

By:

Pakula, Hannah [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xix, 787 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1439148937
9781439148938

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

951.042092 22

LOC classification:

DS777.488.C515 P35 2009

Online resources:

Contents:

List of principal characters -- 1866-1900 -- 1894-1927 -- 1928-1936 -- 1937-1942 -- 1942-1943 -- 1943-1945 -- 1945-1949 -- 1949-1975 -- 1975-2003.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	951.042092 PAK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A453546B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-761) and index.

List of principal characters -- 1866-1900 -- 1894-1927 -- 1928-1936 -- 1937-1942 -- 1942-1943 -- 1943-1945 -- 1945-1949 -- 1949-1975 -- 1975-2003.

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.

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