Oct 24, 2003· Madame Chiang was the widow of the legendary Chinese nationalist general Chiang Kai-shek, who fled China in 1949 in the wake of the communist victory to set up what he envisaged as a Chinese government-in-exile in Taiwan. Chiang, whose U.S.-educated wife was his interlocutor with the West, ruled Taiwan with an iron fist for 25 years, and it was ...
