I’ve always been amazed and awed by stories of the Soong sisters, I’ve read the book, and watched the DVD from our Soong Sisterspost.  Of course I am not going to miss out the new biography about Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, written by Hannah Pakula.  This book maybe a real challenge for me though, with 681 pages of text. 

The New York Times gave it a great review this week.  It praised the author for the amount of research, and telling a beautiful story at the same time.

I always admire her for her beauty, for her help to bring modernization to China, for her fasinating life, and for her power to influence thousands of people, even to this day.  From reading the many reviews so far, it seems that this book also provides a glimpse of Madame Chiang’s dark side.  I am eager to find out more about this elegant lady, so that I can continue to be awed by her.