The Generalissimo
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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
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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.
Drawing heavily on Chinese sources, "The Generalissimo" reveals fascinating aspects of Chiang Kai-shek'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
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Author : Jay Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2011-04-30
The Generalissimo written by Jay Taylor and has been published by Belknap 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.
Official History Of The Improved Order Of Red Men
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Author : George W. Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Official History Of The Improved Order Of Red Men written by George W. Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Fraternal organizations categories.
The History Of The Improved Order Of Red Men
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Author : Morris H. Gorham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
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Schiller S Wallenstein Wallenstein S Lager And Die Piccolomini
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Author : Friedrich Schiller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
Schiller S Wallenstein Wallenstein S Lager And Die Piccolomini written by Friedrich Schiller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with categories.
The Nineteenth Century And After
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
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Littell S Living Age
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
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The Nineteenth Century
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language : en
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Release Date : 1896
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The Twentieth Century
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language : en
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Release Date : 1896
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