Seventy-five years ago this week, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting a war that cost ...

The U.S. is rushing, again, into war over a country that few Americans understand.

A portrait of “Old Hickory ... Even Chiang Kai-shek, the pre-1949 leader of China – once close to the United States – wrote “avenge humiliation” in his every diary entry for twenty straight years. He ...

When Chiang Kai-shek’s army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, ... Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek. ...

Cairo, Egypt. c. 22 November 1943. Group portrait taken in the outdoors during a conference at which officials, military leaders and the heads of the Government of the United States, China and England ...

Taiwan has led an effort to rid itself of the symbols of Taiwan’s authoritarian past and tried to remove statues and portraits of first president Chiang Kai-shek, but there are still quarters of ...

His biography of the Generalissimo is a first-rate portrait of the man and a review of China's political evolution during the last two decades. Chiang Kai-Shek: Asia's Man of Destiny | Foreign Affairs ...

That comparison may be apt, but her behavior as second lady and first lady is also reminiscent of another wife of a prominent politician, albeit not an American one: Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife ...

This led to the period of violent martial law, also known as “White Terror,” which was not lifted until 1986. This incident highlighted the divide between the “benshengren,” those Taiwanese who ...

Chiang founded their training schools in China and then Taiwan. Statues of Taiwan’s late Chiang Kai-shek at the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on January 16, 2024.

A splendid portrait of layers of identity and resistance in what is no less a settler society than the United States. ... and then Chiang Kai-shek’s one-party Republic of China, ...