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Ernest Hemingway called her the "Empress of China." British novelist Christopher Isherwood found her "possessed of an almost terrifying charm and poise." Among those impressed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's charms was the American politician Wendell Willkie, who lost the presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 but...
While agreeing that she was "one of the most beautiful, intelligent and sexy women either of us had ever met," Cowles dissuaded Willkie and went to tell Madame Chiang. When he broke the news, Cowles wrote, she scratched his cheeks so deeply that the marks remained for a week.
While in New York, she invited Cowles to a t?te-?-t?te dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria Towers. In his memoirs, which have never before been made public, Cowles relates how Madame Chiang instructed him to spend whatever was necessary to get Willkie the Republican nomination.
“Officially we are going, but there are a lot of details and logistics involved, so our plan to go is preliminary for now,” said Cowles Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Jose A. Mazzotti, who teaches the course.
The South Asian language program, however, is likely to take a hit next year with the departure of Cowles Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Stephanie W. Jamison for the University of California, Los Angeles, resulting from Harvard’s decision last week to not grant her tenure...