Conversations with Mikhail Borodin.
[Chiang, May-Ling Soong] Chiang Kai-shek, Madame. Conversations with Mikhail Borodin. [Taipei: World Anti-Communist League, China Chapter, 1977.]
8vo.; 96 pp; printed wrappers; one small chip to rear wrapper.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by Chiang Kai-shek on title page to Mrs. Seymour Berkson (Eleanor Lambert): To Mrs. Seymour Berkson, with affection / May Ling Soong Chiang / June 1977.
A scathing critique of Communism, penned by the widow of General Chiang Kai-shek as recollections
of her 1926 conversations with Mikhail Borodin, a Soviet Comintern agent who at the time was acting
as a Communist advisor to the Nationalist Party in China. Borodin was forced to flee China the following year after the General, who was the leader of the right wing of the party, orchestrated the violent 1927 Shanghai suppression of leftist elements and subsequent purge of Communists from the party.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Soong May-Ling, was First Lady of Taiwan until 1975, as well as the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. She played a prominent role in the politics of both China and Taiwan, and was involved in numerous global organizations, including the International Red Cross Committee, the British United Aid to China Fund, and the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society. She died in 2003 at the age of 105.
Mrs. Seymour Berkson, better known as Eleanor Lambert, was a central figure in the American art world and the fashion public relations industry. During the 1930s she was the first press director of the Whitney Museum, and also assisted with the founding of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1941 she founded the famous International Best Dressed Poll, presented American fashion abroad under the auspices of the U.S. government, and organized the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1962. To honor her contributions, the CFDA created “The Eleanor Lambert Award” in 2001, which is presented each year for a “unique contribution to the world of fashion and/or deserves the industry’s special recognition.”
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