Chiang Kai-shek’s Secret Coma, and the Cigar-Smoking, Cross-Dressing, Confucian Descendant Ms. Kung — S5-E23

In the summer of 1972, Chiang
Kai-shek vanished. He missed Double Ten
parades. However, Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling), and the
step-son she loathed (future president Chiang Ching-kuo) carried
on as if all was well. There were no press leaks
as the president of the Republic of China lay in a
coma for six months.   





In this episode of Formosa Files, we uncover the cover-up, and
tell you about an odd dinner where medical staff waited to pounce
and revive the aging dictator. Plus, we
meet Jeanette Kung: a cigar-smoking, men’s
clothing enthusiast who might today be a gay icon of some kind,
except for the fact that she possessed an…um…“challenging
personality.”











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