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 ...

The crowd began gathering near the sentry boxes at Blair House at dusk, stood raptly as rush-hour traffic blatted past on Pennsylvania Avenue. It multiplied as President Harry Truman walked across the ...

With her legacy fading, Madame Chiang Kai-shek marked her 100th birthday on Tuesday, a milestone in the life of a woman once known to be Asia's foremost anti-Communist symbol. Madame Chiang celebrated ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek had triumphed in Washington before. This time it looked as if everything was against her. When the Sacred Cow, bringing her on the last lap of her trip from California, landed ...

Two for the price of one: high-jinks of an empress, low-jinks of a country we love-hate: China. There's no doubt Madame Chiang Kai-Shek was a piece of work. Witty, sexy, shrewd, schooled in the ways ...

As a Chinese nationalist, Chiang eagerly joined Roosevelt’s push against imperialism, targeting European empires like the British and French, and demanding the repeal of “unequal treaties” that ...

CHINA is fortunate in having in a high post of leadership such a woman as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, who, along with passionate patriotism, possesses the gift of pleading her country’s cause in terms ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek died in New York City Thursday at the age of 105. Madame Chiang, whose given name was Soong Mei-ling, became well known in the United States when she addressed Congress in 1943, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...