Women and Their Warlords
Merkel-Hess, Kate In this book, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the wives of the warlords who held control over regional factions in China from 1916 to 1928. Posing for candid photographs and sitting for interviews, these women did not just advance their husbands' agendas. They advocated for social and political changes, gave voice to feminist ideas, and shaped how the public perceived them. As the first publicly political wiv...