Chiang Kai-Shek’s Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife

This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of China’s great leaders during the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s and of the woman who paid a staggering price so that he could attain his ambition. The tale begins in 1919 when the thirty-two-year-old Chiang Kai-shek met the naA-ve thirteen-year-old whom he would call Ch'en Chieh-ju.