The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China | 誠品線上

宋美齡新傳: 風華絕代一夫人

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內容簡介 With a beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China.With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-Shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more than 2,000 years of monarchy, followed by World War II, and ending in eventual loss to the Communists and exile in Taipei. Praised by China scholar Jonathan Spence for “an impressive amount of telling material, drawn from a wide array of sources,” Pakula presents an epic historical tapestry, a wonderfully wrought narrative that brings to life what Americans should know about China—the superpower we are inextricably linked with.

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各界推薦 傳記作家帕庫拉（Hannah Pakula）曾為羅馬尼亞的瑪麗皇后作傳，她在《宋美齡新傳》發揮她擅長說故事的能力，運用細節的描寫表現宋美齡的性格特色。她在開頭第一章便以戲劇性筆法寫下，二戰期間被派到中國戰區的美軍竇恩（Frank Dom）上校，曾回憶有一次宋美齡向他抱怨：為何他旗下美國軍官稱呼她夫人（Madam）時，都不像法文的夫人（Madame）把重音擺在第二音節？宋美齡並生氣地說：「大家不都曉得青樓老鴇就是這麼叫的嗎？」不過，竇恩反應機靈地回答，他們也是這樣稱呼英國女王的，宋美齡一聽便心情大好。 帕庫拉表示，「一個中國農民之女為何覺得被比擬為英國女王心裡既舒坦又合宜，我試圖考量美齡家族的特殊性質，她的家族受惠於數百年來的社會結構瓦解、也協助推動中國進入現代化世界。」 因此，她從宋美齡父親的身世背景開始寫起，「希望能讓讀者瞭解宋美齡是如何成長、她又如何打動美國掏出數十億美元援助中國。」本文節錄自中時電子報 2010-11-30【林欣誼／台北報導】

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