Yunnan's Disappearing Emperor

On a mountainside above the Southwestern China city of Kunming, a wooden courtyard home sits, with a wushu martial arts practice room, tunnels leading to a network of rooms dug out of the mountain, a stone tower with slits for marksmen and a room where Chiang Kai-shek and his wife spent eight nights in the darkest days of 1941.

This was the weekend villa…