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Generalissimo


Generalissimo
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Author : Jonathan Fenby
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-02-12

Generalissimo written by Jonathan Fenby and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with History categories.


Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928. Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient stature to attend a conference with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War, his desire for unity was always thwarted by threats on two fronts. Between them, the Japanese and the Communists succeeded in undermining Chiang's power-plays, and after Hiroshima it was Mao Zedong who ended up victorious. Brilliantly re-creating pre-Communist China in all its colour, danger and complexity, Jonathan Fenby's magisterial survey of this brave but unfulfilled life is destined to become the definitive account in the English language.



The Generalissimo S Son


The Generalissimo S Son
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Author : Jay Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-01

The Generalissimo S Son written by Jay Taylor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with History categories.


Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese youth, the grand appeal of Marxism-Leninism, the terrible battle against fascist Japan, and the long, destructive civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with his father and two million Nationalists. He led the brutal suppression of dissent on the island and was a major player in the cold, sometimes hot war between Communist China and America. By reacting to changing economic, social, and political dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms on the mainland, and other international events, he led Taiwan on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's son.



The Generalissimo


The Generalissimo
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Author : Jay Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-30

The Generalissimo written by Jay Taylor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of China—he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his “white terror,” controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan’s evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.



The Generalissimo


The Generalissimo
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Author : Jay Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-15

The Generalissimo written by Jay Taylor and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of China—he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his “white terror,” controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan’s evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.



Chiang Kai Shek


Chiang Kai Shek
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Author : Jonathan Fenby
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-04-27

Chiang Kai Shek written by Jonathan Fenby and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.



Generalissimo Chiang Speaks


Generalissimo Chiang Speaks
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Author : Kai-shek Chiang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939

Generalissimo Chiang Speaks written by Kai-shek Chiang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with China categories.




The Life Of Field Marshall The Duke Of Wellington C C


The Life Of Field Marshall The Duke Of Wellington C C
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814

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The Collected Wartime Messages Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek 1937 1945


The Collected Wartime Messages Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek 1937 1945
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Author : Kai-shek Chiang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1946

The Collected Wartime Messages Of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek 1937 1945 written by Kai-shek Chiang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1946 with China categories.


FROST (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.



Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek


Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek
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Author : Basil Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10

Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek written by Basil Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.


This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.



Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek


Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek
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Author : Basil Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10

Generalissimo And Madame Chiang Kai Shek written by Basil Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.


This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.