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Sian: A Coup d-Etat --- A Fortnight in Sian Extracts From a DiaryMayling Soong Chiang and Chiang Kai-ShekThe China Publishing Company, 1938
sixth impression 1938
Red silk cover with thread binding and bamboo fiber paper, has wear on boards and foxing on pages. Nameplate: Courtesy of Michael Gastner. Personal inscription, Christmas 1938
From Foreword: For the sheer thrill of danger, romance, calm courage and dramatic climax, these two documents have all the fascinating interest of a historical novel. But this is immensely intensified when it is realized that they are the authoritative records of actual happenings only a few months ago while the fate of a great nation was literally trembling in the balance and the whole world was awaiting the outcome with puzzled bewilderment and ancious forebodings. Madame Chiang describes her part in this sensational occurrence while the incidents are still fresh in her memory and in doing so unconsciously reveals a wifely devotion, a woman\'s intuitive understanding of the basic issues and a superb heroism which are the more convincing because written with so objective a purpose to give the simple facts.
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