Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past: The Memoir Of His Second Wife
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813318254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Five Stars. Came as promised and they did a good job. Would buy from them again. A Customer said Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past. The book started slow but I really enjoyed it once I was further into it. His personality, both strengths and weaknesses, clearly came through. He rose to great power through single minded determination and ambition.Even though her marriage ended in 19"Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past" according to A Customer. The book started slow but I really enjoyed it once I was further into it. His personality, both strengths and weaknesses, clearly came through. He rose to great power through single minded determination and ambition.Even though her marriage ended in 1927 it would have been interesting to have a chapter at the end giving an overview of his life from 1927 until his death.. 7 it would have been interesting to have a chapter at the end giving an overview of his life from 19"Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past" according to A Customer. The book started slow but I really enjoyed it once I was further into it. His personality, both strengths and weaknesses, clearly came through. He rose to great power through single minded determination and ambition.Even though her marriage ended in 1927 it would have been interesting to have a chapter at the end giving an overview of his life from 1927 until his death.. 7 until his death.. Good but dissappointing premature end. A Customer This book had much to offer, but unfortunately, it ends when Ms Chen is sent to the United States. It completely ignores the rest of the Chiang Kai Shek 'rule' as president of the Republic of China. Chen Chieh Ju does give a clear insight into the personality of Chiang Kai Shek(prone to outbursts of violent temper, power hungry, ruthless, et c.) but seems to show a very soft heart for him. The Soong Sisters, howeve
Chiang Kai-shek emerges as a lustful, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, stubborn, and boundlessly ambitious man. She paints here a stirring portrait of their personal life as well as of the infighting and intrigue that marked her husband's early political career. He pursued her relentlessly for two years until she finally agreed to marry her brash and forceful suitor. The tale begins in 1919 when the thirty-two-year-old Chiang Kai-shek met the naïve thirteen-year-old whom he would call Ch'en Chieh-ju. In pursuit of his goals, he abandoned the young wife he seemingly loved to make a politically expedient alliance with Soong Mei-ling, now famed as Madame Chiang. publication plans in the 1960s. Despite his betrayal, Chieh-ju's love for her husband is clearly evident. Above all, her story conveys a keen sense of the texture of upper-class life in the China of that period, a quality academic studies rarely capture.. This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of China's great leaders during the Nationalis
Lloyd E. Eastman was professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Illinois. Eastman was professor of history and Asian studies at the University of Illinois. Ch'en Chieh-ju was the wife of Chiang Kai-shek from 1921 to 1927. Ch'en Chieh-ju was the wife of Chiang Kai-shek from 1921 to 1927. Lloyd
He left his first wife to marry Ch'en Chieh-ju when she was 15 and then left her to gain political and financial backing from the powerful Soong family by marrying Soong Mei-ling. Eastman (history, Univ. From Library Journal In his own time, Chiang Kai-shek had already become larger than life, yet he had another side that most people still do not know. Recommended for academic libraries.- Dennis L. Noble, Lewistown P.L., Mont.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. . The manuscript, however, is valuable for the insight it gives into daily life for the upper class in China from 1919 to 1927. of Illinois), who edited this memoir by Chiang's second wife, points out in the introduction that its historical value is questionable; it includes long conversations that Ch'en had to dredge up from 40 years in the past. The personal views of figures such as Michael Borodin, Sun Yat-sen, and, mo