Roosevelt backed this stance despite British resistance, encouraging Chiang and his wife, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, to promote independence ... utilizing the generalissimo’s old claims and maps ...

Ai-ling was also an active supporter of Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing Kuomintang Party ... She died in New York in 2003 at the ripe old age of 106. Mao famously said of the sisters: "One loved ...

The painstaking work to restore ornate treasures amassed by Chinese emperors in centuries past has accelerated in the past decade amid President Xi Jinping's push to preserve China's heritage and ...