Books: "The Last Empress"
The New Yorker - Arts & Culture / 2009-12-28 01:00:00 / 1
During the Second World War, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, née Soong May-ling, was not only the First Lady of China but the secretary-general of the Chinese Air Force. In 1950, as First Lady of Taiwan, she suggested to General Douglas MacArthur that she lead a guerrilla . . .