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"Powerful women are often unlucky in their biographers, but in her engaging book, MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK:CHINA'S ETERNAL FIRST LADY, Laura Tyson Li ably describes the life of this indomitable little woman who "was a seamless alloy of Southern belle, New England bluestocking, and Chinese tai-tai, or matron" ....Li, who is fluent in Mandarin and spent many years as a journalist in Asia, writes with clarity and insight about China's complicated political history. She exercises considerable restraint when judging Madame's motives, but in an astute assessment in the epilogue, she outlines the paradoxes of her personality...."Tyson Li, Laura is the author of 'Madame Chiang Kai-shek China's Eternal First Lady', published 2007 under ISBN 9780802143228 and ISBN 0802143229.
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