Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945

Esther Hu provides an overview of Soong Mayling and Wartime China, 1937-1945: Deploying Words as Weapons (Rowman & Littlefield/Bloomsbury 2025), a new book on China's former First Lady, Soong Mayling (also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek). It examines her timely and critical contributions in the areas of war, women's work, and diplomacy during China's War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) through a gender lens. Esther Hu (PhD Cornell) is a feminist literary scholar and historian who joined Boston University in 2005. She is a Senior Fellow at the International History Institute and Affiliated Faculty of the Center for the Study of Asia at BU Pardee School, and an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.