Admirers of Taylor's long, engaging biography of the last authoritarian president of Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo, will welcome this thoughtful account of the life of Chiang's father, who governed China ...

CHIANG KAI-SHEK: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. By Jonathan Fenby. Carroll & Graf, 562 pp., $30. THE question that roiled American political debate from the 1948 presidential ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek ( 2003-10-24 14:44) Mayling Soong, ... He was baptised in 1929. A rising star in the Chinese military, he became Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, ...

Madame Chiang and Chiang Kai-shek were one of the world's most famous couples. They married in 1926, a year after Mr. Chiang, also known as the Generalissimo, took over China's ruling Nationalist ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, a power in China, died on October 23rd, aged 105. Try for free. Enterprise. ... a clerk who had risen to head the Nationalists and called himself “generalissimo”.

The election as mayor of the younger Mr. Chiang, as protests spread across the mainland, is a moment to weigh the Generalissimo’s legacy. During World War II Chiang Kai-shek was one of the “Big Four” ...

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong May-Ling. Jan. 19, 2012. SHARE. Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images. Under the Chiangs (shown in 1941), China fights alongside the Allied forces against Japan.

Anyone interested in Chinese President Xi Jinping's blueprint for territorial expansion should read Chiang Kai-Shek's WW2 book, China's Destiny. As the leader of Nationalist China and a key U.S ...

Scion of Chiang Kai-shek Wins His Chance. The moment echoes the hopes of the Nationalists’ Generalissimo for the reunification of China — under a freely chosen Legislative Yuan. The great-grandson of ...

A message greeting the Jews of the world on the occasion of Rosh Hashanah was issued here today from Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek. In response to a request from the Shanghai Echo, local English ...