THE SOONG DYNASTY by Sterling Seagrave Harper & Row; 532 pages; $22.50 All unhappy families may be dissimilar, but the Soongs were more dissimilar than others. “Revolutionary,” “Concubine,” ...

In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times bestseller The Soong Dynasty, and his wife and longtime ...

'The military created many martyrs, but few as celebrated as Edgar Jopson, the student leader who had asked President Marcos to sign a pledge that he would not violate the Constitution and seek a ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, born May-ling Soong, was a member of a remarkable family, called "the Soong Dynasty" by author Sterling Seagrave. One of her sisters was the wife of a president of China; one ...

I would have wanted to move on, but my column last week—Who Remembers the Marcos Years?—has elicited surprising and odd comments. The mention particularly of the books of Sterling Seagrave (The Marcos ...