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  Chiang Fang-liang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faina Chiang Fang-liang (蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng) (May 15, 1916–December 15, 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Chiang had been exiled to work in Siberia after his father, Chiang Kai-shek, had purged the leftists from the Kuomintang.
Chiang, and Ma Ying-jeou draped her casket with the KMT party flag and KMT party elders Lee Huan, Hau Pei-tsun, Chiu Chuang-huan, and Shih Chi-yang draped her casket with the ROC national flag.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Fang-liang   (604 words)

  
 Chiang Ching-kuo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chiang Kai-shek died in April 1975 and was succeeded to the presidency by Yen Chia-kan while Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang (opting to take the title "Chairman" rather than the elder Chiang's title of "Director-General").
Chiang was officially elected President of the Republic of China by the National Assembly after the end of the term of President Yen Chia-kan on May 20, 1978.
Chiang Fang-liang and Soong May-ling had agreed in 1997 that the former leaders be first buried but still be moved to mainland China in the event of reunification.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Ching-kuo   (1780 words)

  
 Chiang Kai-shek - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Kai-shek was born in the town of Xikou (溪口鎮), located inside Fenghua county (奉化縣), now the county-level city of Fenghua (奉化市), depending from Ningbo prefecture (寧波府), now the prefecture-level city of Ningbo (宁波市), Zhejiang Province.
Chiang was recognized as one of the "Big Four" Allied leaders along with Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin and travelled to attend the Cairo Conference in November 1943.
Chiang was reelected President of the ROC on May 20, 1954 and later on in 1960, 1966, and 1972.
open-encyclopedia.com /Chiang_Kai-shek   (3053 words)

  
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Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國 in pinyin: Jiǎng Jīngguó) (March 18, 1910 - January 13, 1988) was the President of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 until his death in 1988.
Chiang launched the "Fourteen Major Construction Projects" and "Ten Major Construction Projects and the Twelve New Development Projects" contributing to the so-called "Taiwan miracle." Many of the projects associated with Chiang were extensions of Japanese infrastructure projects from the 1930's.
Chiang died of heart failure and hemorrhage in Taipei at the age of 78.
www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/c/ch/chiang_ching_kuo.html   (768 words)

  
 CKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born Chiang Chou-t'ai (蔣周泰 Zhoutai), in Fenghua County (奉化縣), Zhejiang to Chiang Zhaocong (蔣肇聰) and Wang Caiyu (王采玉).
Chiang was reelected President of the ROC on May20, 1954 and later on in 1960, 1966, and 1972.
Chiang died in Taipei in 1975 at the age of 88 and was interred "temporarily" at Tzuhu, Taoyuan County.
www.therfcc.org /cks-141610.html   (1198 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Chiang-Ching Kuo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
General Chiang Wei-kuo (1916–1997) Chiang Wei-kuo (蔣緯國, 蒋纬国; Hanyu Pinyin: Jiang Weiguo), or Wego Chiang (October 6, 1916–September 22, 1997) was a son of President Chiang Kai-shek, adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, and an important figure in the Kuomintang (KMT).
Chiang Hsiao-wen (Chinese: 蔣孝文) (December, 1935 - April 14, 1989) was the eldest son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Chiang Hsiao-chang (Chinese: 蔣孝ç«) (1936 -) is the only daughter of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chiang_Ching-Kuo   (4919 words)

  
 Cihhu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chiang Kai-shek's remains lie in a fl marble sarcophagus in his former residence.
When Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975, he was never buried in the traditional Chinese fashion but entombed in a fl marble sarcophagus since he expressed the wish to be eventually buried in his native Fenghua once the Kuomintang recovered mainland China from the Communists.
The entrance to the former Chiang residence is flanked by guards from the ROC Army.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tzhu   (568 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Chiang Ching-kuo
In April 1927, however, Chiang Kai-shek purged the leftists and Communists from the KMT and expelled his Soviet advisors; the Soviet government retaliated by refusing Chiang transit home to China and sending him to work in the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, a steel factory in Siberia where he met Fenna Epatcheva Vahaleva, a native Russian.
As the director of the Blue Shirts, Chiang orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955 for allegedly potting a coup d'etat against his father.
Chiang's father eleveated him to high office when he was appointed as the ROC Defense Minister in 1965, where he remained until 1969.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Jiang_Jingguo   (1753 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Faina Chiang, 88, widow of Taiwan president
Chiang was later admired for her stoicism and touted as a model Chinese wife.
Chiang's health began to decline after her husband's death, which was followed by the deaths of their three sons -- Alan in 1989, Hsiao-wu in 1991 and Hsiao-yung in 1996.
In July, she requested that Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo, who lie embalmed in temporary mausoleums, be permanently buried in Taiwan, giving up hope of a burial on mainland China.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/12/17/faina_chiang_88_widow_of_taiwan_president   (544 words)

  
 Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo to be buried in Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo to be buried in Taiwan
Chiang's descendants, however, have asked the government to bury the two former heads of state in a military cemetery in northern Taiwan.
Cheng played down speculation that the decision of the Chiang family to bury the late presidents was intended to cash in on the "Taiwanese identity" issue in order to drum up support for the Kuomintang in the year-end legislative elections, saying there was no need for political machinations regarding this issue.
www.taiwanheadlines.com /20040709/20040709p1.html   (695 words)

  
 Chiang Fang liang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Fang-liang (蔣方良) (born May 15, 1916) is the widow of ChiangChing-kuo and was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
An outspoken member of the CommunistYouth League, Vahaleva, at the age of 16, met Chiang Ching-kuo (Nicolai in Russian) at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant andthey married two years later on March 15, 1935.
Chiang had been exiled to work in Siberia after his father, ChiangKai-shek, had purged the leftists from the Kuomintang.
www.therfcc.org /chiang-fang-liang-161792.html   (399 words)

  
 Chiang Fang-liang -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Born Faina Epatcheva Vahaleva in (Click link for more info and facts about Yekaterinburg) Yekaterinburg, (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia, she was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna.
She was assigned a tutor to learn (The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China) Mandarin Chinese, but she learned the local Ningbo dialect instead.
When Chiang Ching-kuo became (The chief executive of a republic) President, Fang-liang rarely performed the traditional roles of First Lady.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chiang_fang-liang.htm   (639 words)

  
 Chiang Fang-liang Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Fang-liang (蔣方良; born May 15, 1916) is the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Born Faina Epatcheva Vahaleva in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg, Russia), she was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna.
An outspoken member of the Communist Youth League, Vahaleva, at the age of 16, met Chiang Ching-kuo (as he was known as "Nicolai") at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and they married two years later on March 15, 1935.
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/c/ch/chiang_fang_liang.html   (331 words)

  
 Chiang Ching-kuo
After his father took anti-Communist approaches within the Nationalist party (Kuomintang), the Soviet government sent Chiang to virtual exile in return and later to work in a steel factory in Siberia where he met and in March 1935, married Fenna Epatcheva Vahaleva, a native Russian later became known as Chiang Fang-liang.
His administration saw a gradual loosening of political controls, with opposition political parties, namely the Democratic Progressive Party, being unofficially permitted as the Tangwai movement and press restrictions laxed.
Chiang launched the "Fourteen Major Construction Projects" and "Ten Major Construction Projects and the Twelve New Development Projects" contributing to the "Taiwan miracle." Many of the projects associated with Chiang were extensions of Japanese infrastructure projects from the 1930s.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chiang_ching_kuo   (960 words)

  
 The lonely widow of Huaihai Rd in sealed memory
Born in 1910 in Chiang Kai-shek's hometown in neighboring Zhejiang Province, Chiang Ching-kuo was sent to Moscow to study at the age of 15 and he stayed there for 12 years.
She presented the Chiang family with three sons and one daughter who all grew to be tall and handsome-looking.
Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988 and her three sons in 1989, 1991 and 1996.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-01/12/content_408126.htm   (940 words)

  
 Chiang Ching-kuo - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國 in pinyin: Jiǎng Jīngguó) (April 27
In Moscow, the younger Chiang became an enthusiastic student of Communist ideology, particulary Trotskyism.
Chiang Ching-huo appointed Taiwan-born Lee Teng-hui as his successor as Chairman of the Nationalist Party and President of the Republic of China, ending his father's hopes for continued dynastic succession.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Chiang_Ching-kuo   (1686 words)

  
 Taiwan Leader's Shy Russian Widow Dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The shy former first lady, daughter-in-law of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was the most mysterious and least-known member of the powerful family who lost China to Mao Zedong's Communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949.
Faina Chiang arrived in Taiwan in the late 1940s, when the Nationalists were retreating to the island.
She requested in July this year that Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo -- who lie embalmed in temporary mausoleums -- be permanently buried in Taiwan, giving up her hope of a proper burial for them in mainland China.
dev.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/12/16/017.html   (551 words)

  
 Chiang Chingkuo - Definition up Erdmond.Com
The only son of Chiang_Kai-shek and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Chekiang and had the nickname of Jinfeng (建豐).
After his father took anti-Communist approaches within the Nationalist party (Kuomintang), the Soviet government sent Chiang to virtual exile in return and later to work in a steel factory in Siberia where he met and in March 1935, married Fenna Epatcheva Vahaleva, a native Russian later became known as Chiang_Fang-liang.
In contrast to his father Chiang_Kai-shek, Chiang Ching-kuo built himself a folksy reputation and remains a generally popular figure among the Taiwanese electorate, particularly those who support Chinese_reunification.
www.erdmond.com /Chiang_Ching-kuo.html   (773 words)

  
 fang
Fang is also the name of their Bantu language.
Around the early 20th century, the Fang were visited by Christian missionaries, whose teachings they incorporated into their own belief system.
The Fang are noted for their art, especially their carvings and sculptures.
www.fact-library.com /fang.html   (131 words)

  
 Faina Chiang dies at 88 in Taipei
Faina Chiang, the shy Russian-born wife of former Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo, died on Wednesday at age 88, local media reported.
Faina Chiang, who was suffering from asthma, died at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei, the government-funded Central News Agency reported.
The widow _ also known by her Chinese name Chiang Fang-liang _ was seriously ill for years and used a wheelchair during her rare public appearances.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-12/15/content_400400.htm   (300 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Wife of late Taiwanese leader dies at 88   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Faina Chiang, the shy Russian-born wife of former Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo, died on Wednesday at 88.
Taiwanese media reported that she was 90 because according to the local system of calculating age, a person is already 1 year old at birth and becomes 2 after the next Chinese Lunar New Year.
Unlike her mother-in-law, Faina Chiang avoided the spotlight and was known to be this island's most low-key first lady.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/12/15/wife_of_late_taiwanese_leader_dies_at_88   (411 words)

  
 Chiang Ching Kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo, eldest son of the late President Chiang Kai-shek, was born on March 18, 1910, in Fenghua, Chekiang...
Chiang Ching-kuo's leadership in the development of the Republic of China on Taiwan...
Famous Chinese Women - Chiang Fang-liang- Chiang Fang-liang is the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and was the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
www.which-tarot.com /33/chiang-ching-kuo.html   (790 words)

  
 Colmillo-liang De Chiang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Colmillo-liang de Chiang () (llevado de mayo el 15 de 1916) es la viuda de Chiang Ching-kuo y era la primera señora de la república de China en Taiwán a partir de 1978 a 1988.
Chiang exiled para trabajar en Siberia después de su padre, Chiang Kai-shek, había purgado a izquierdistas del Kuomintang.
Colmillo-liang de Chiang, permanecido detrás para vivir con la madre de Chiang Ching-kuo, Mao Fu-mei.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/co/Colmilloliang%20De%20Chiang.htm   (494 words)

  
 Love to Fang-liang-the Chiang Family Album (Page 4/22)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chiang Ching-kuo in the Gannan period with second son Hsiao-wu.
In accordance with his father's wishes, Chiang Ching-kuo set about studying classical works such as the Analects of Confucius, the philosophy of the Song-dynasty philosophers Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, and the family strictures of the Qing statesman Zeng Guofan.
At the age of 30, Chiang Ching-kuo became the executive governor of the Gannan administrative region in the province of Jiangxi.
www.sinorama.com.tw /en/1998/199801/701038e4.html   (349 words)

  
 Chiang Fang-liang, former First Lady of the Republic of China (Taiwan), dies of pulmonary and cardiac failure in ...
Faina Chiang (蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng), the Russian-born former First Lady of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and wife of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo died on December 15, 2004 of pulmonary and cardiac failure in the Taipei Vetrans Hospitial.
Chiang's body was cremated and placed in her husband's temporary mausoleum in Taoyuan County.
Current plans are to have Chiang Ching-kuo, and his father, Chiang Kai-shek's, remains moved from their temporary mausoleums to the Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery.
en.wikinews.org /wiki/Chiang_Fang-liang,_former_First_Lady_of_the_Republic_of_China_%28Taiwan%29,_dies_of_pulmonary_and_cardiac_failure_in_Taipei.   (285 words)

  
 english.eastday.com
She lived close to the center of power in China as the daughter-in-law of Chiang Kai-shek and she was the mother of four, but when she died in Taipei last month she was all alone, writes Michelle Qiao.
Her residence was one of a group of eight Spanish villas at 1610 Huaihai Road and was called ``Yi Cun.'' Faina Chiang and Chiang Ching-kuo's family lived in the No. 2 building facing Huaihai Road.
He found Shanghai was `a society of profiteers and gangsters who had behind-the-scenes supporters'.'' Chiang must have wept tears of frustration when at home in ``Yi Cun'' which his wife had turned into a comfortable nest for the family.
english.eastday.com.cn /eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai790308.html   (904 words)

  
 Chiang Fang-liang - Famous Chinese Women - Chinese
Faina Chiang Fang-liang (蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngli?ng) (May 15, 1916andndash;December 15, 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
An outspoken member of the KomsomolCommunist Youth League, Vahaleva, at the age of 16, met Chiang Ching-kuo (known as Nicolai in Russia) at the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and they married two years later on March 15, 1935.
KMT politicians Wang Jin-pyng, Lin Cheng-chih, P. Chiang, and Ma Ying-jeou draped her casket with the Flag of the KuomintangKMT party flag and KMT party elders Lee Huan, Hau Pei-tsun, Chiu Chuang-huan, and Shih Chi-yang draped her casket with the Flag of the Republic of ChinaROC national flag.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Chiang_Fang-liang   (698 words)

  
 Surviving son finally takes Chiang Ching-kuo's surname   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The biological son of late Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo has finally taken his father's last name and became a member of the Chiang family, which ruled Taiwan island for four decades after 1949.
He was born our of wedlock to Chiang Ching-kuo and his mistress Chang Ya-juo in Guilin, in 1941.
He and his twin brother, Winston, were born out of wedlock to Chiang and his mistress in Guilin, Guangxi, in 1941.
en.ce.cn /Life/social/200503/09/t20050309_3270966.shtml   (230 words)

  
 Faina Chiang, wife of late Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-kuo, dies at 88_taiwan_hk_English_Sina
Faina Chiang, who was suffering from asthma, died at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei, the state-funded Central News Agency reported.
The widow -- also known by her Chinese name Chiang Fang-liang -- was seriously ill for years and used a wheelchair during her rare public appearances.
Taiwanese media reported Faina Chiang was 90 because according to the Chinese age-counting system, a person is already 1 year old at birth and becomes 2 after the next Chinese Lunar New Year.
english.sina.com /taiwan_hk/p/1/2004/1215/13994.html   (413 words)

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