Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and become a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government, died ...

Her temperament and the times were well matched. It was early 1943, and the Republic of China was struggling to resist the invading forces of imperial Japan. Soong Mei-ling, then 45 and the wife of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chiang Kai-shek, President of Nationalist China, is seen here in October 1970 at a mass rally celebrating the 59th anniversary of ...

To admirers, the wife of the Nationalist dictator of China and later Taiwan was a symbol of resistance to Communist tyranny; to detractors, she was a crafty "Dragon Lady" or a quisling of American ...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek played a pivotal role in almost a century of Chinese history. She was the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, the leader of the Nationalist Party in China during the 1930s ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Madame Chiang Kai-shek, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to become a driving force for nationalism in Taiwan, died Thursday in New York ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Madame Chiang Kai-shek, who became one of the world's most famous women as she helped her husband fight the Japanese during World War II and later the Chinese Communists, has died in ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the glamorous, U.S.-educated "eternal first lady" of Taiwan, has died at her New York City home. She was 105. After battling cancer and other illnesses for ...

Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Shek with his wife, Madame Chiang Kai- Shek, on June 23, 1964. Madame Chiang Kai- shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- She was born into one of modern China's most remarkable families, married one of China's most powerful men and -- at his side -- helped rule China and later Taiwan during decades of ...