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AllRefer.com - Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese And Taiwanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia Chiang was active (1913–16) in attempts to overthrow the government of YUan Shih-kai. Chiang followed Sun Yat-sen's policy of cooperation with the Chinese Communists and acceptance of Russian aid until 1927, when he dramatically reversed himself and initiated the long civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Chiang continued to promise reconquest of the Chinese mainland and at times landed Nationalist guerrillas on the China coast, often to the embarrassment of the United States. reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ChiangKa.html   (716 words)

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It shares the grounds of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Park with the National Concert Hall and National Theater and is one of the city's defining landmarks. After Chiang Kai-shek's death on April 5, 1975, the Executive Yuan established a Funeral Committee to build a Memorial Hall to commemorate him. The Chiang Kai-shek Square is flanked by both sides with the National Concert Hall and the National Theater. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek_Memorial_Hall   (529 words)

Chiang Kai-shek - MSN Encarta Chiang Kai-shek led the efforts to defeat the Chinese Communists and unify China during a period of civil war and to resist the Japanese in World War II (1939-1945). Chiang Kai-shek was born into a family of salt merchants near Fenghua in Zhejiang Province, in eastern China. Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), political and military leader of 20th-century China, a pivotal figure in the country’s modern history. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572748/Chiang_Kai-shek.html   (2014 words)

Chiang Kai-shek 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 reelected President of the ROC on May 20, 1954 and later on in 1960, 1966, and 1972. 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. www.askfactmaster.com /enc-zh/En:Chiang_Kai-shek   (2913 words)

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist and unyielding anti-Communist, led the military unification of China in the 1920s and participated as a world leader in the Allies’ defeat of Japan in World War II. Chiang switched back and forth from military to political leader with ease, both roles marked by zealous patriotism and a stubborn ruthlessness that often punished the people he claimed to protect. Although Chiang continued to court and receive U.S. aid, being one of the few leaders to send military forced to Vietnam to support the U.S. war effort there, he was never able to mount a significant reunification effort with the mainland. www.carpenoctem.tv /military/kaishek.html   (852 words)

Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek was unable to stop the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and in 1937, he was forced to work with the Chinese Communists when Japan invaded China. The Nationalists were forced from China to Taiwan, where Chiang Kai-shek became President. Chiang Kai-shek joined the military at an early age. ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/PeopleView.cfm?PID=378   (268 words)

Chiang Kai-Shek Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975) was the nationalist leader who helped overthrow the Manchus, fought against the Communists and the Japanese and then founded the Republic of China, the modern, developed economy known as Taiwan. Chiang Kai-Shek had been unable fully to eliminate the various provincial warlords who had risen to seize power in their own regions of China after the fall of the Manchus. At the same time, Chiang, by now the Generalissimo of the Nationalists, was reluctant to engage the Japanese in open warfare and preferred to believe that the Allied forces would be able to defeat the Japanese without his assistance. www.suite101.com /article.cfm/east_asian_history/118096   (519 words)

The World at War: Chiang Kai-Shek Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was the head of the Kuomintang Party and ruler of Nationalist China before and during World War II. Chiang's skill lay in the political arena, where he not only managed to stay on top of a cut-throat coalition of rival warlords, but also succeeded in selling himself as a pillar of democracy to the American public. Chiang, however, used most of this to prepare for war with the Communists, and only lost more ground to the Japanese. www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/chiang.htm   (217 words)

TIMEasia.com TIME 100: Chiang Kai-shek 8/23/99-8/30/99 But unlike his predecessor, Chiang Kai-shek left behind a prosperous economy that grew into a genuine democracy. Chiang sought to increase his party's strength with ties to China's wealthy landlords, alienating the peasants who represented more than 90% of the population. Chiang, sustained by the Soviet aid Sun had arranged, built the party's first viable army and crushed the warlords. www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/cks.html   (586 words)

Mme. Chiang Kai-shek Dead At 106 - CBS News (CBS/AP) Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and become a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government, died Thursday in New York. Madame Chiang was one of her husband's most prominent lobbyists in Washington and in 1943 became the first Chinese national ever to address a joint session of Congress. Madame Chiang was a working wife, taking on tasks ranging from interpreter and social worker to head of China's air force during World War II, an ironic twist of fate since she suffered greatly from air sickness. www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/10/24/world/main579764.shtml   (1116 words)

Chiang Kai- Shek Chiang Kai-Shek began his political career as the military aide to Sun Yat-Sen. In 1928, he became undisputed leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party. Chiang Kai-Shek later led Nationalist forces to defeat in their battle against the Communists. Chiang often found himself a supplicant to Roosevelt for money and supplies. www.multied.com /Bio/people/kai-shek.html   (92 words)

Chiang Kai-Shek Chiang Kai-Shek was a famous former Nationalist Chinese leader and was the generalissimo of China during the Second World War. Chiang’s father died when he was only eight years old, and he had to start working when he was only nine years old. Chiang was unable to stop the Japanese from invading the rest of China in 1937. www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b3chiangkaishek.htm   (929 words)

Person of the Week: Madame Chiang Kai-shek Madame Chiang Kai-shek was her husband's English translator, secretary, advisor and an influential propogandist for the Nationalist cause. President Chiang Kai-shek died during his fifth term, in 1975. Following the refusal of Nationalist forces in Sian, China, to engage communist forces in December, 1936, Chiang Kai-shek went to Sian, where he was "arrested" by military subordinates. www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/chiang.html   (815 words)

Chiang Kai-shek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chiang Kai-shek was born in the town of Xikou, approximately 33 km (20.5 miles) southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. Chiang was reelected by the National Assembly to be the President of the ROC on May 20, 1954 and later on in 1960, 1966, and 1972. Chiang's body was not buried in the traditional Chinese manner but entombed in his former residence in Cihhu in respect for his wish to be buried in his native Fenghua. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek   (4273 words)

BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific Chiang Kai-shek's widow dies In 1949 Chiang's forces lost the civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists, and Madame Chiang fled with her husband to the island of Taiwan. Madame Chiang was born Soong May-ling on China's southern Hainan island in 1898. Madame Chiang, who was brought up as a Christian, had studied in the US in her youth. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/3209965.stm   (514 words)

Chinatown recalls an icon's era / Death of Madame Chiang Kai-shek stirs memories For generations of Chinese Americans in the Bay Area, Madame Chiang Kai-shek was an exception: a strong woman at a time when many were powerless, a Chinese accepted as an equal in an era of discrimination. Yu remembers watching a newsreel in which Chiang said, "As I speak, there are bombs falling in the background." Her bravery impressed Yu, now 62. Born Soong Mei-Ling, Madame Chiang, as she was known, died Thursday at 105 in New York -- her lifetime spanning modern Chinese history. sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/25/BAG5R2JDF21.DTL   (704 words)

Chiang Kai-shek Unaware that Chiang Kai-shek had turned against the revolution, they went to the General Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army to present their petition, only to be mowed down by machine-gun fire. Pretending to oppose "internal dissension among the workers", Chiang Kai-shek ordered his troops to disarm the workers and occupy the headquarters of the General Trade Union, where a spurious union composed of underworld figures was immediately set up. In China a condition of formal truce continued between Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist-led forces but it was being frequently violated by Chiang, whose armed assaults against the Communists had continued even during the Anti-Japanese War. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWchaing.htm   (1978 words)

Commemorative Chairs: Madame Chiang Kai-shek Despite the initial objections of Madame Chiang’s mother, the two were wed on Dec. 1, 1927 after Chiang Kai-Shek agreed to convert to Christianity and to divorce his first wife, with whom he had one child. Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, considered the “model of what many Americans hoped China to become” and indeed one of the most powerful women of the twentieth century, died on October 23, 2003. The victory of Mao’s Communists in 1949, however, changed that course and prevented Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek from remaining China’s ruling couple. www.feri.org /kiosk/profile.cfm?QID=1825   (718 words)

eBay - chiang kai shek, Coins World, Asia items on eBay.com Chiang Kai Shek With Wife Shanghai China PERIOD Photo CHIANG KAI SHEK China's Generalissimo and Nation He Lost Madame Chiang Kai Shek "CHINA IN PEACE AND WAR" 1st DW search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=chiang+kai+shek&...&krd=1   (517 words)

Business Asia: Chiang Kai Shek.@ HighBeam Research Portrayals of Chiang Kai Shek evoke two strong, very different, personalities. Chiaing Kai Shek ruled as dictator in China from 1928 to 1949 but was defeated by Mao Zedong's communists and fled to Taiwan, which he ruled until 1975. The article describes the life of Chiaing Kai Shek, his impact on Taiwan, and his relationship to China. www.highbeam.com /doc/1G1:55143212/Chiang+Kai+Shek~R~.html?refid=ip_hf   (184 words)

Chiang Kai-shek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chiang Kai-shek ( October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. Chiang Kai-shek's policies were far from Christian or democratic, but this remained unknown to the U.S. public due to strong state-imposed censorship in China and self-imposed censorship in the U.S. during the war years and after. Chiang was born in the town of Xikou, in Fenghua County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek   (184 words)

Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Art of War Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Art of War Chiang is too frail to travel these days, but she did attend the opening of the exhibit in New York, which was viewed by more than 13,000 people. Chiang's work as "strong and competent." She is particularly struck by that intimate inscription accompanying Lotus: A Gentleman Among Flowers. www.gluckman.com /ChiangKaiShek.html   (1104 words)

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek Dies Madame Chiang, a dazzling and imperious politician, wielded immense influence in Nationalist China, but she and her husband were eventually forced by the Communist victory into exile in Taiwan, where she presided as the grand dame of Nationalist politics for many years. Madame Chiang also helped defuse one of the gravest crises of her husband's career, when he was kidnapped by rebellious generals in December 1936 in what came to be known as the Xian Incident. Madame Chiang's health wavered over the years, and in 1976 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy, and later, a second one. chinese-school.netfirms.com /Madame_Chiang_KS.html   (3286 words)

Madame Soong Mei-ling's Life in Her Old Age Madame Soong's charisma and political adeptness were among the driving forces of the KMT leadership of her husband Chiang Kai-shek. Madame Soong was born in Shanghai in 1897. Madame Soong Mei-ling, one of the most influential Chinese women of the 20th century, died at the age of 106 in her apartment in Manhattan, New York Oct. 23, 2003. www.china.org.cn /english/NM-e/79495.htm   (1025 words)

Chiang Kai-shek on Encyclopedia.com Chiang was active (1913-16) in attempts to overthrow the government of Yüan Shih-kai. Chiang followed Sun Yat-sen's policy of cooperation with the Chinese Communists and acceptance of Russian aid until 1927, when he dramatically reversed himself and initiated the long civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communists. Chiang continued to promise reconquest of the Chinese mainland and at times landed Nationalist guerrillas on the China coast, often to the embarrassment of the United States. www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/ChiangK1a.asp   (938 words)

Soong May-ling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chiang Kai-shek was succeeded to power by his eldest son Chiang Ching-kuo, from a previous marriage, with whom Madame Chiang had rocky relations. As the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek, she was also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (蔣夫人 py: Jiǎng fūrén) and played a prominent role in the politics of the Republic of China. As a result, she again returned to the U.S. Madame Chiang made a rare public appearance in 1995 when she attended a reception held on Capitol Hill in her honor in connection with celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soong_May-ling   (1069 words)

washingtonpost.com: Madame Chiang Kai-shek Dies; Chinese Chief's Powerful Widow Madame Chiang was the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of Nationalist Chinese forces during both the civil war against the Chinese Communists and World War II against Japan. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, 106, one of the world's most powerful, best-known and controversial women during the 1930s and 1940s and a major influence on United States policy toward China in those decades, died Oct. 24 at her apartment in New York. Madame Chiang was a close friend of the United States throughout her life, and especially during the defining struggles of the last century. www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A14571-2003Oct24?language=printer   (1373 words)

Chiang Kai-shek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chiang Kai-shek was born in the town of Xikou, approximately 33 km (20.5 miles) southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. However, the ancestral home (祖籍) of Chiang Kai-shek, a concept important in Chinese society, was the town of Heqiao (和橋鎮), in Yixing County, Wuxi Prefecture, Jiangsu Province (approximately 38 km. Chiang was reelected by the National Assembly to be the President of the ROC on May 20, 1954 and later on in 1960, 1966, and 1972. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek   (4199 words)

Chiang Kai-Shek Time Man of the Year With Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, 1937 Birthday Is Holiday 31-Oct Chiang Kai-shek's Birthday (Taiwan) Son: Chiang Ching-Kuo (President of Nationalist China, 1978-88; b. www.nndb.com /people/974/000086716   (37 words)

Mark Steyn: Half Dragon Queen, Half Georgia Peach (Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, 1898-2003) Roosevelt was insistent that the Chiangs be invited; Churchill thought it preposterous to pretend that General Chiang’s China was (along with Britain, the US and the Soviet Union) one of the “Big Four” world powers; their presence at the conference was “an absolute farce”. Chiang’s China was unstable, he was never a likely candidate to hold it together, and it was obvious who the likely successors would be. The reason for this difference of opinion was simple: Churchill had never met Madame Chiang; Roosevelt had. www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1080302/posts   (2880 words)

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