Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang, wasn’t just the glamorous wife of Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek — she was a powerhouse who shaped politics, charity, and diplomacy in the 20th century.

Wasp-waisted Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek agrees with President Roosevelt that the present is no time for old-fogyish, orthodox finance. Last week he accepted the resignation of orthodox.

Her temperament and the times were well matched. It was early 1943, and the Republic of China was struggling to resist the invading forces of imperial Japan. Soong Mei-ling, then 45 and the wife of ...

Faced by advancing Nationalist Armies, lacking the allies he had counted on, stalwart, crop-headed “Christian” General Feng Yu-Hsiang realized dismally last week the inopportuneness with which he had ...

"The only thing Oriental about me," Soong Mei-ling once wrote, "is my face." Soong Mei-ling, better known to history as Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, was exaggerating only slightly. Chinese by birth, American ...

For ten months Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has fought the fire of Communismin China by wetting down the ground with his New Life Movement. “Water,” he quotes, “always flows over a wet ...