China's Brave New World by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom Vladimir Tismaneanu

Author:Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Vladimir Tismaneanu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

________

* It is kept a few miles outside of the city in a granite tomb, awaiting the day when the Communists fall and Chiang can be returned to the mainland to be buried in Nanjing near his brother-in-law and mentor, Sun Yat-sen. The body of his son, Chiang Ching-Kuo, who followed him as President of the ROC, is also in Taiwan awaiting transportation to the mainland for final burial. The Generalissimo’s wife, Soong Mei-ling, who died in New York, is due for the same treatment, but her corpse awaits it in the United States.

* Though, of course, unlike my colleagues, she would have first encountered a Shanghai inhabited by a great many other people from Taiwan, whereas in the 1980s at least there were at most hundreds—not hundreds of thousands—of Americans residing in or passing through the city at any given time.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.