TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pakula,Hannah
TI  - The last empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China 
SN  - 1439148937
AV  - DS777.488.C515 P35 2009
U1  - 951.042092 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Chiang, May-ling Soong,
KW  - Chiang, Kai-shek,
KW  - Presidents' spouses
KW  - China
KW  - Biography
KW  - Taiwan
KW  - History
KW  - Republic, 1912-1949
KW  - 1945-
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1001/2009017576-s.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1009/2009017576-b.html
ER  -