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Co-presented with the GARDNER CENTER FOR ASIAN ART & IDEAS, SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM and the EAST ASIA STUDIES CENTER, JACKSON SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Noted biographer Hannah Pakula visits with her major new biographical work, The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China (Simon & Schuster)—an apt subject for this co-presented evening at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. "An ambitious, timely biography of Soong May-ling (1897 - 2003), better known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek. To tell this complex story, Pakula steps back and patiently recounts the twilight of the Manchu Dynasty, when May-long's father was educated by Methodist missionaries, studied in American universities and achieved business success in thriving Hong Kong ... Pakula portrays May-ling from an evenhanded sampling of correspondence, memoir and public record ... A winning combination of measured, balanced research, and critical evaluation—the definitive account of an important figure in 20th-century Chinese politics." - Kirkus Reviews. Free admission. The Seattle Asian Art Museum is at 1400 E. Prospect St. in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600—or see www.seattleartmuseum.org.
