In Popular Culture
The acocryphal tale that the large pearl on Empress Dowager Cixi's crown ended up on Madame Chiang's gala shoes is described in Bertolucci's film The Last Emperor.
Madame Chiang appears as a minor character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.
The historical novel Mayling (2012) by Dutch author Lucas Zandberg portrays the life of Madame Chiang from a first-person perspective.
Actress Joan Chen portrays Madame Chiang in the HBO film Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012), which starred Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway and Nicole Kidman as Martha Gellhorn.
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