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...resistance to the excesses of Maoism, Madame Chiang and her husband were highly regarded in the U.S., and she was even featured three times on the cover of TIME magazine. (See right.) At home, however, some regarded her as arrogant and an apologist for the authoritarian ways of the KMT regime. After her husband's death in 1975, she moved to the U.S. and a life outside of the political spotlight...
...Bush administration - Madame Chiang was raised as a Christian and educated at Wellesley College where she graduated in 1917. Her sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the nationalist leader who created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before the onset of a bloody civil conflict between the KMT and Mao's communists - a conflict that also marked a parting of ways of the Soong sisters, as Madame...
...authoritarian steward of a booming capitalist economy, while the Taiwanese electorate - having attained a democratic voice over their own destiny in the wake of Chiang's passing - demur, increasingly eschewing "One China" in favor of an independence-minded ethnic-Taiwanese nationalism. Madame Chiang and her husband, and the KMT political apparatus they brought with them from the mainland were, after all, exiles. And today's political landscape in Taiwan reflects their declining status relative to the ethnic-Taiwanese who have little interest in KMT claims to the seat of power in Beijing...
...when the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) depended on an underground station called Greenpeace to broadcast its samizdat message. (The station has no relationship with the environmental group of the same name.) On Greenpeace's unfettered airwaves, citizens could express proindependence views and criticize the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT). Many supporters called in at night, taking care to keep the lights off at home lest their neighbors suspect they may be taking part in the clandestine radio movement. "The station worked not only as a public-opinion medium," recalls Greenpeace head Chen Der-li, "but also as a command...
...Anhui province, Charles met his first wife and had two sons, Shide and Shisheng. His wife died after an agonizing three-year siege of cancer. Soon after, Charles left town on a KMT assignment in Wuhu; he didn't see his sons again for 40 years. "I didn't even remember him leaving," Shisheng recalls. "I only knew I got out of bed and he was gone...