Madame Chiang Kai-shek: Face of Modern China

Signature Lives

by Sandy Donovan, Susan Temple Kesselring, Kevin G. Cai

- Table of contents, glossary, and index
- World events timeline
- Personal timeline
- Source notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- National Standards for History
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112 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[yiming · Rating 2 out of 5]

Biased, American-centric history of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, aka Soong Meiling. The author draws upon "dragon lady" stereotypes of Asian women in her depiction of Soong Meiling. The book is very Eurocentric and full of American exceptionalism. I learned a lot about Soong Meiling, but I am doubtful of how complete a picture Donovan paints. She makes it sound as though the United States is a perfect place--at least in constantly pointing this corruption in the Chinese Nationalist government, it sort of implies that corruption doesn't even exist at all in the States. This bothered me a lot. I'd like to learn more about Soong Meiling, but from less biased sources.

[Candice · Rating 4 out of 5]

this an ok book. Just not the greatest of them all