From the dj: Through the years we have had many pictures of Chiang Kai-shek. He has been portrayed as a Christian crusader, a blood-thirsty Fascist, a libertine, a dangerous radical, a gallant ally - contradictions which have tended to blur Chiang's true character beyond recognition. What kind of man is he, then? The answer, Emily Hahn has found, lies in neither extreme: Chiang is Chiang - consistent, faithful to his principles, brave, narrow, and above all, stubborn. Miss Hahn, who pulls no punches, traces Chiang's progress from a stiff-necked junior officer to a position of top command; his famous Punitive Expeditions to the north; his skillful avoidance of fatal conflicts with Russia and Japan while managing to control the dissidents within his own regime; his fantastic 'kidnapping' in Sian and the dramatic dash of his lovely wife, Mayling, to his rescue; . . .

CHIANG KAI SHEK CHINA THE FAR EAST CHINESE HISTORY