Soong Mei-ling

Source: Bo Xilai “is Denying Everything”

The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports that disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai has denied involvement in or knowledge of the events surrounding the death of British businessman Neil Heywood, according to a...

Tale of the Dragon Lady

Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking, writes for Foreign Policy on perception of women in Chinese politics: Sadly, “dragon ladies” are an all-too-familiar trope in Chinese history: A successful man achieves...

She Who Must Be Obeyed

In the New York Times, Jonathan Mirsky reviews The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China: There is a bull market these days in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) and his wife, Soong Mei-ling...

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