Chiang Kai-shek - Wikipedia
WEBTaipei, Taiwan, Sunday, April 6—Chiang Kai‐shek, the President of Nationalist China and the last survivor of the Big Four Allied leaders of World War II, died of a heart attack here last night. He was 87 years old.
Chiang Kai-shek | Biography & Facts | Britannica
WEBAug 20, 2024 · Chiang Kai-shek (born October 31, 1887, Fenghua, Zhejiang province, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan) was a soldier and statesman, head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan.
Chiang Kai‑shek ‑ Wife, Mao Zedong & Significance | HISTORY
WEBNov 9, 2009 · Chinese military and political leader Chiang Kai-shek joined the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang, or KMT) in 1918. Succeeding party founder Sun Yat-sen as KMT leader in 1925,...
Chiang Kai-shek summary | Britannica
WEBChiang Kai-shek , or Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, (born Oct. 31, 1887, Zhejiang, China—died April 5, 1975, Taipei, Taiwan), Head of the Nationalist government in China (1928–49) and later in Taiwan (1949–75).
Biography of Chiang Kai-shek - ThoughtCo
WEBMar 26, 2019 · Chiang Kai-shek (1887 to 1975), also known as Generalissimo, was a Chinese political and military leader who served as head of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1949. After being forced from power and exiled by Chinese Communists after World War II, he continued to serve as president of the Republic of China on Taiwan . Fast …
BBC - History - Chiang Kai-shek
WEBChiang Kai-Shek, June 1946 © Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) for five decades and was head of state of the...
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China ...
WEBAug 22, 2023 · Pantsov draws on Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and Russian archives to provide the most intimate account yet of the Chinese Nationalist Party leader’s personality, relationships, and dramatic career.
Chiang Kai-shek - Chinese Studies - Oxford Bibliographies
WEBMay 24, 2018 · Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蔣介石)—also referred to as Chiang Chung-cheng (Jiang Zhongzheng 蔣中正)—is one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese history. He is also one of the most studied. He has been the focus of a vast array of historiography, biography, hagiography, and demonization. For early critics, Chiang …
The Life of Chiang Kai‐shek: A Leader Who Was Thrust Aside by ...
WEBApr 6, 1975 · Twenty‐two years after rising to the leadership of China in a bloody coup against the Communists in 1927, Chiang Kai‐shek lost the mantle he had so dearly gained and so precariously mainlained to...
Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for China - Hoover Institution
WEBJan 30, 2007 · Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Kuomintang from 1927 to 1949 and attempted to centralize power in China under a Nationalist government, kept the diary almost every day, using a calligraphy pen. He regarded this task as an exercise in personal discipline and virtue.
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