Program on 18 April 2020: [WEBCAST] China’s Russian Princess: the Silent Wife of Chiang Ching-kuo
- Size: 21.5 (H) x 14.8 (W) cm
- Binding: softcover, 224 pages
- Language: English
- Author: Mark O'Neill
- Publisher: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Limited, 2020
"China’s Russian Princess: the Silent Wife of Chiang Ching-kuo" tells the extraordinary story of a person unknown in history. Her Chinese name was "蔣方良" and Russian name Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva. Chiang Ching-kuo met Faina at a heavy machinery plant in Yekaterinburg in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. He was a hostage of Josef Stalin, who used him as leverage against his father Chiang Kai-shek. He is considered to be one of the most enlightened political leaders of the 20th Century. A factory worker, Faina thought she would spend her life with her husband in the Soviet Union. Instead, they move to China in 1937, live through the anti-Japanese war and the civil war and then move to Taiwan in 1949. She is the constant companion of her husband who had a remarkable career. He was the ‘son of the Emperor’ and his closest adviser and lived on the front life of the tumultuous history of China in the 20th century
- 裝幀：平裝，200頁
- 語言：繁體中文
- 作者：馬克．奧尼爾
- 譯者：程翰
- 出版：三聯書店(香港)有限公司，2020
蔣方良原名芬娜，生於白俄羅斯，1935年與蔣經國結為夫妻，翌年便隨丈夫離開出生地，遠赴中國大陸，成為第一家庭的媳婦；後來更隨國民黨遷台，配合丈夫的政治發展，方良由活潑開朗的個性，漸漸變成深居簡出，因此外界對她所知甚少。在丈夫離世後，其三名兒子更先後離她而去，令外界越加好奇這位俄籍第一夫人一生的遭遇。
在《蔣經國的俄國妻子──蔣方良》，作者馬克．奧尼爾（Mark O’Neill）便梳理出蔣方良的一生，還親身訪問了蔣良方的次子蔣孝武、三兒媳蔣方智怡和明星咖啡廳主理人簡靜惠等人，務求最貼近地、以一手資料將蔣方良的面貌呈現出來。
這名低調的俄籍女子，有著中國傳統婦女的形象，在家相夫教子，默默做丈夫背後的女人。亦因如此，中華民國政府通過總統頒布褒揚令給予褒揚：「蔣故總統經國先生夫人方良女士，志節貞固，蕙質婉約。」