Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945

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Deploying Words as Weapons

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvEsther T. Hu

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Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons focuses on the First Lady of China’s timely and critical contributions in the areas of war, women’s work, and diplomacy during China’s War of Resistance as inflected through gender. This book explores Soong Mayling through her own words by examining her speeches, essays, letters, telegrams, and news reports during the war period. How did Madame Chiang Kai-shek’s gender identity shape her interactions with other Chinese women, the male military and political leadership in the Republic of China, and the broader global public? How did Confucianism’s cardinal virtues and Chinese Christianity converge in Soong Mayling’s work and worldview? What were her main contributions as Secretary-General of the Chinese Air Force? Drawing on Chinese archival materials such as Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and other records around the world, Esther Hu provides a historically informed perspective of the First Lady’s legacy within the context of World War II history, international cultural and military affairs, and transnational geopolitics.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-25
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666928631

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Esther T. Hu is an Assistant Professor at Boston University, Senior Fellow at the International History Institute , and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. She has published many essays, book reviews, and encyclopedia entries and is the English translator of Soong Mayling's Chinese-language pictorial biography, A Legacy of Grace and Resilience: Soong Mayling and her Era (2023; 2nd Ed. 2024). She is the author of Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons (2025).

List of ImagesNote on the Romanization of Chinese WordsAcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTIONPART I. SOONG MAYLING’S MILITARY CONTRIBUTIONS DURING CHINA’S WAR OF RESISTANCE (1937-1945)1Soong Mayling and the Chinese Air Force 2 Soong Mayling and Wartime Contributions in Partnership with the Christian CommunityPARTII. WOMEN’S WORK: THE WOMEN’S ADVISORY COUNCIL, WAR RELIEF, AND NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION 3Soong Mayling as Mother of China: Women’s Organization, Mobilization, and Networks through the Women’s Advisory Council (WAC)4Encouraging China’s Women and Educating China’s Youth: Soong Mayling’s Rhetorical and Emotional LaborPART III. DIPLOMACY AT HOME AND ABROAD5Diplomacy at Home6Diplomacy Abroad: Soong Mayling, Sino-Indian, and Sino-British Relations7Diplomacy Abroad: Soong Mayling and U. S.-China RelationsCONCLUSION. Soong Mayling’s Legacy AppendixBibliography

Soong Mayling, or Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was one of the most influential and controversial women of the twentieth century and Esther T. Hu’s careful study of her wartime activities is sure to further elevate her stature. This history recovers Mayling’s eloquence and passion in rallying the Chinese people, especially its women, to resist Japanese aggression. It is no wonder that millions of Americans came to understand China’s global mission through its first lady.