Chiang, May Ling Soong Madame Chiang Kai Shek (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 356 pages. Ex-library book, some soiling and wear to the covers and page edges. A good reading copy of an old book. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 211050.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. Stated First Edition. VERY GOOD TO NEAR FINE BOOK, CLEAN, BRIGHT TIGHT, IN GOOD+, COMPLETE DUST JACKET WITH $3.00 PRICE, PARTIALLY SUNNED SPINE, SLIGHT EDGE WEAR, AND GENERAL RUBBING. Uncommon in this condition and with a dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 256 pp. Ex library copy in black cloth. Lacks a dust jacket.

Barcelona, Mateu, Colecc. Grandes Actualidades, s.f. (finales años 40). 18x13 cm. 223 p. Rústica, sobrecubierta. Buen estado. 1ª edición español. (Ref. N. 206-M).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. WESTWOOD : 1955. Hardback. Sand-coloured cloth; black lettered spine. A bright, tight and clean copy. No owner name or internal markings. VERY GOOD INDEED. 45pp. **Inserted; 4pp of articles from unknown journal; 'Religious Fervour in Formosa', 'Working with Hudson Taylor' by J.J. Coulthard. SOONG MEI-LING OR SOONG MAY-LING (1898-2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1942 conducted a speaking tour of the United States to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and the only first lady during World War II (aside from Queen Elizabeth, 1900-2002) who lived into the 21st century. Her life extended into three centuries. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. WESTWOOD : 1955. Hardback. Grey cloth; black lettered spine. In blue and sand coloured printed dust-jacket (not price-clipped); now in a clear protective sleeve. Untrimmed edges as issued. A bright, tight and clean copy. Neat owner name dated 1956. No internal markings. Jacket has minor wear only. VERY GOOD in like jacket. 45pp. SOONG MEI-LING OR SOONG MAY-LING (1898-2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (ROC), the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and in 1942 conducted a speaking tour of the United States to gain support. She was also the youngest and the last surviving of the three Soong sisters, and the only first lady during World War II (aside from Queen Elizabeth, 1900-2002) who lived into the 21st century. Her life extended into three centuries. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A very good copy of the hard cover edition, lacking a dust-jacket. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding bright and fresh in appearance, with mild foxing to the endpapers and the page edges. A sharp copy.

7 pages, staplebound pamphlet, very good. The wife of China's Generalissimo explains why she is a Christian.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Clay cloth boards with black quarter-cloth. 8vo. [18] 312 pp. [6]. Insert of b/w photo pages at beginning of book. Deckled page edges have slight age-toning. NO ownership markings. Ships fast with tracking.

Condition: Good. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. 1st edition, code C-P (March 1940). 8vo hardcover. 312pp. B/W photos. Good book and Near Good dust jacket. Spine tips and corners bumped, boards lighty rubbed and with a couple of small, slight dampstains. A small bookplate and stamp belonging to C.T. Feng, former Chinese ambassador to Mexico on front endpage. Priced clipped dust jacket, soiled and chipped. . Laid in memorial service program for former president of China Chiang Kai-Shek and article about his death. (China, Social Conditions, Chinese History) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: good. no jacket. no additional printings listed . NOT an ex library book. Book with four hole binding, cloth pattern spine, cloth purple boards. Fade at bottom edge, worn on bottom corners, bumps. 381 Per Editor's note: Indulgences must be claimed for certain unavoidable shortcomings in this book as it was compiled in Hankow where modern facilities for book-making are unavailable. The million or so individual letters were picked from type compartments and hand set by Chinese compositors who knew little English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 381pp. Boards covered in blue fabric, loose in some areas. Spine is fabric as well. Binding remains solid, despite rubbing and wear. Scarce item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First/Limited Edition. iv, [6], 381, [1] pages. Soiling inside boards and flyleaves. Ex-library with usual library markings. Library bookplate on front flyleaf. Boards stained and edges quite worn and threadbare. Small tear and small piece of spine missing. The Editor's note on page iv states: "This first edition is a limited one: later editions of this book will be printed abroad in a manner that should do more justice both to this writer and this material." As regards the wartime production of this rare limited edition, the Editor's note also states that: "The million or so individual letters were picked from type compartments and hand set by Chinese compositors who knew little English. Type--so small unfortunately--was available only for forty pages at a time. There were delays in paper shipments as Japanese planes subjected the Kowloon-Hankow Railway to daily bombings." There were further delays due to difficulties obtaining the services of compositors. The selection in this work is my no means exhaustive, for Madame Chiang's writings are as voluminous as they are varied, but those addresses, interviews, messages and press dispatches included in the first section of this book can be taken as representative. The second collection from the writings of Madame Chiang Kai-shek contains her thoughts on pre-war problems and vital movements in China, her Christian faith, and her skilled steps along the path of short-story writing. Soong Mei-ling or, legally, Soong May-ling (March 5, 1898 - October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek or Madame Chiang, was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek. Soong played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China and was the sister-in-law of Sun Yat-sen, the founder and the leader of the Republic of China. She was active in the civic life of her country and held many honorary and active positions, including chairwoman of Fu Jen Catholic University. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, she rallied her people against the Japanese invasion; and in 1943 conducted an eight-month speaking tour of the United States of America to gain support. Her life traversed three centuries. Soong Mei-ling met Chiang Kai-shek in 1920. Since he was eleven years her elder, already married, and a Buddhist, Mei-ling's mother vehemently opposed the marriage between the two, but finally agreed after Chiang showed proof of his divorce and promised to convert to Christianity. Chiang told his future mother-in-law that he could not convert immediately, because religion needed to be gradually absorbed, not swallowed like a pill. They married in Shanghai on December 1, 1927. While biographers regard the marriage with varying appraisals of partnership, love, politics and competition, it lasted 48 years. The couple had no children. In 1928, she was made a member of the Committee of Yuans by Chiang. They renewed their wedding vows on May 24, 1944 at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City. Madame Chiang initiated the New Life Movement and became actively engaged in Chinese politics. She was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1930 to 1932 and Secretary-General of the Chinese Aeronautical Affairs Commission from 1936 to 1938. In 1945 she became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang. As her husband rose to become Generalissimo and leader of the Kuomintang, Madame Chiang acted as his English translator, secretary and advisor. She was his muse, his eyes, his ears, and his most loyal champion. During World War II, Madame Chiang tried to promote the Chinese cause and build a legacy for her husband on a par with Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Well-versed in both Chinese and Western culture, she became popular both in China and abroad. Her prominence led Joseph Stilwell to quip that she ought to be appointed minister of defense. Soong Mei-ling made several tours to the United States to lobby support for the Nationalists' war effort. She drew crowds as large as 30,000 people and in 1943 made the cover of TIME magazine for a third time. She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover alongside her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as "Man and Wife of the Year." Arguably showing the impact of her visits, in 1943, the United States Women's Army Corps recruited a unit of Chinese-American women to serve with the Army Air Forces as "Air WACs", referred to as the "Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Air WAC unit". Both Soong Mei-ling and her husband were on good terms with Time magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China. On February 18, 1943, she became the first Chinese national and the second woman to address both houses of the US Congress. After the defeat of her husband's government in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, Madame Chiang followed her husband to Taiwan, while her sister Soong Ching-ling stayed in mainland China, siding with the communists. Madame Chiang continued to play a prominent international role. She was a Patron of the International Red Cross Committee, honorary chair of the British United Aid to China Fund, and First Honorary Member of the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket absent. One or two slight scuffs and nicks to cover. Text unmarked and uncreased. Previous owner's name on first inside page, and bookplate on front free endpaper. Otherwise, a good used copy with no major defects. 127 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; China; Social conditions; Civilization; Politics and government; Add. Inventory No: 230119ABH012020.

Silk Over Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First 'limited' edition. iv, 381 pp. Original blue silk-covered boards with paper title label to front board. Japanese-style four-hole binding with silk-patterned spine. Wear & rubbing to board edges. Internally clean. An editor's note states that the Chinese compositors could only set forty pages of text at a time due to a lack of individual type. Other delays to the printing were caused by delays in receiving paper shipments caused by daily bombings of the railways. After her husband's death in 1975 Madame Chiang Kai-shek emigrated from Taiwan to New York where she died aged 106 in 2003. 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Chinese Orchids by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (First Lady of China - Soong May-ling). Very scarce first edition. Beautifully produced book bound in traditional Japanese style. Thread sewn binding. Silk covers with an exquisite see-through spiral design endpaper. The book is in fine condition - looks unread. Contains 24 prints of her Orchid paintings. Forward page written by her husband Chiang Chung-cheng (Chiang Kai-Shek). Published in Taiwan, 1971. (Taipei) : Zhong yang yue kan she, Minguo 60 (1971). Large folio size book - 432mm high x 268mm wide. The book is contained in an outer folio card cover in very good condition - all intact but a little shelf worn and discoloured with a sticker removal mark on the reverse. Soong May-ling, (or May-ling Soong Chiang) also known as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was a remarkable and important figure in the history of the Republic of China. She was the First Lady of the Republic of China between 1948 and 1975, married to Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-Shek. She lived from 1898 to 2003. With her first class education in the USA, and with her resultant excellent English she played an important role in political discussions. She was a politician and involved in charitable causes, as well as an accomplished painter in the traditional Chinese style, and after the death of her husband in 1975, moved from Taiwan back to the USA. Around 1988 to 1990 she did return to Taiwan and tried and become involved in politics again, but this time was unsuccessful, and returned to the USA. She was a beautiful and formidable lady, and has even been nicknamed The Last Empress. More photos on request. Extra postage may be payable.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Landscapes, Orchid, Bamboo and Flower Paintings by Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (First Lady of China - Soong May-ling). Very scarce first edition. Beautifully produced book bound in traditional Japanese style. Thread sewn binding. Silk covers. The book is contained with a matching silk bound outer folder with 3 sections and bone clasps. The book is in fine condition - looks unread. Contains 24 prints of her paintings produced between 1971 and 1974, most of which have never been published before. Forward page written by Wang Yun-mu, the Chairman of the Administrative Council of the National Palace Museum. Published in Taiwan, 1979. Zhonghua Minguo Taibei : Guo li gu gong bo wu yuan, Minguo 68 (1979). Very large folio size book - 580mm high x 420mm wide. The book and its outer cover are contained in a very large outer folio cardboard cover with a coiled string closure. This is intact but has substantial marking due to water damage (contents inside not affected at all). This is of minor significance as these cardboard outer wraps would often have been discarded in any case. The outer folder measures 580mm high x 420mm wide. Soong May-ling, (or May-ling Soong Chiang) also known as Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was a remarkable and important figure in the history of the Republic of China. She was the First Lady of the Republic of China between 1948 and 1975, married to Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-Shek. She lived from 1898 to 2003. With her first class education in the USA, and with her resultant excellent English she played an important role in political discussions. She was a politician and involved in charitable causes, as well as an accomplished painter in the traditional Chinese style, and after the death of her husband in 1975, moved from Taiwan back to the USA. Around 1988 to 1990 she did return to Taiwan and tried and become involved in politics again, but this time was unsuccessful, and returned to the USA. She was a beautiful and formidable lady, and has even been nicknamed The Last Empress. More photos on request. Extra postage may be payable - a very large book which can only be sent via Courier delivery.

4to. 1 p. On "Headquarters of the Generalissimo" letterhead. Madame Chiang Kai-shek wrote from Nanjing, then the Chinese capital, less than two months before the Nanjing Massacre, in which invading Japanese forces slaughtered Chinese civilians. The massacre was part of the Second Sino-Japanese War the "undeclared war" mentioned in the letter in which Japanese Imperial forces invaded China. The Second Sino-Japanese War is considered to have opened the Pacific Theatre of World War Two. President and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had mobilized his best troops to defend Shanghai earlier that year and lost. Reluctant to wipe out the rest of his army in a hopeless defense of Nanjing, he withdrew most of his troops before the invasion: "Dear Mr. Yui, I think you are already acquainted with Mr. Kerran, of London, so it is not necessary for me to introduce him to you. Mr. Kerran is very interested in China s case in this undeclared war, and is anxious to get some close up ideas of the endurance of our soldiers in their defense against Japanese invasion. Therefore will you kindly show Mr. Kerran what courtesy you can in assisting him to pay a visit to the front so that he can see with his own eyes what is happening? Whatever you can do for Mr. Kerran will be appreciated. Yours sincerely, Mayling Soong Chiang (Madame Chiang Kai-shek)". The terrific content letter is in good very condition with toning and a mounting strip at the top.