Chianghimself, withhisglamorouswife, Soong Mayling, his cool, austere manner and his comic-booktitle, "the Generalissimo", seemedsomewhereon the spectrum betweenjokeandmonster.
Mayling Birney at the London School of Economics says the system assigns the cold logic of a scorecard to behaviour often dismissed as the excesses of little dictators far from Beijing.