Suggested Readings

Chan, Sucheng and Madeline Y. Hsu, eds. Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.

Chu, Samuel C, ed. Madame Chiang Kaiskek and Her China. Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2005.

Hartnett, Stephen J., Lisa B. Keranen, and Donovan Conley, eds. Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 2017.

Haygood, Daniel M. and Glenn W. Scott. “Madame’s American Adventures.” Media History 29, no. 4 (2023): 554-573.

Jespersen, Christopher T. American Images of China, 1931-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Johansson, Perry. “Fantasy Memories and the Lost Honor of Madame Chiang Kai-shek.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 23 (2006): 109-120.

Lee, Kyoo. “Why Asian Female Stereotypes Matter to All: Beyond Black and White, East and West.” Critical Philosophy of Race 1, no. 1, (2013): 86-103.

Leong, Karen J. The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism. Berkely: University of California Press, 2005

Li, Laura Tyson. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: China’s Eternal First Lady. New York: Grove Press, 2006.

Ono, Kent A. and Vincent N. Pham, eds. Asian Americans and the Media. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2009.

Pakula, Hannah. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2009.

Soong, Mei-ling. Madame Chiang Kai-shek Selected Speeches, 1943-1982. Taipei: Chinese Women’s Anti-Aggression League, 1984.

Taylor, Jeremy E. “Recycling Personality Cults: Observations of the Reactions to Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s Death in Taiwan.” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 7, no. 3 (2006): 347-362.

Xi, Li. “Chinese Argumentation in War Rhetoric: A Case Study of Soong Meiling’s Speech at the U.S. Congress pm February 18, 1943.” In Local Theories of Argument. Ed. Dale Hample. New York: Routledge, 2021. 270-275.

Audio-Visual Resources

Lin, Lequn, Wenzhen Zeng, Dana Morgan, and Bill Thissen. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2005.

“Madame Chiang Kai Shek: Extraordinary Women.” BBC: Films On Demand, 2011. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=239213&xtid=95082 (accessed July 29, 2024).

Online Resources

Mason, Lark E. “How the Soong Family Changed the Course of Chinese History.” PBS: Antique Road Show. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/articles/how-the-soong-family-changed-the-course-of-chinese-history/ (accessed April 2, 2024).

Soong, Mei-ling. “Address by Madame Chiang to Congress.” U.S. National Archives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBM7iyP5XM (accessed March 15, 2023).