Hollington K. Tong — Chiang Kai-shek

China Publishing Company Taipei Second Edition Good Condition 21.5cm x 15cm. xxi, [3], 562 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, no jacket. The revised edition of Tong's biography of the Chinese leader. Tong was a journalist and diplomat, serving as the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Japan when this edition was published later as the Ambassador to the United States. This revised edition, published 16 years after the first edition, condenses the story of Chiang Kai-shek's life pre-1936, which was covered at length in the two volume first edition, and focuses on the epic years which followed, 1937-1953. This copy inscribed by Tong in Tokyo, 1953, to the polyglot Boris Strjeshevsky, an officer in the Imperial Russian Army that fled to China where he learned English and Chinese and taught Russian to the Chinese, before moving to Japan in 1939 where he learned Japanese and taught languages, before finally moving to Queensland, Australia, where he taught Russian at the University of Queensland. Spine lettering somewhat worn. Some chipping to spine head and tail. Foxing to edges and endpapers, occasional minor foxing to interior. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Asia|China; 20th Century: 1950s; Politics, Government & Economics. Inventory No: 0035425.