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Chiang Kai-shek

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Chiang Kai-shek  (chng kshk, jyäng) 1887-1975.
Chinese military and political figure who led the Nationalists against the rising Communist forces and was driven from the mainland to Taiwan (1949), where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death.
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Noun1.Chiang Kai-shekChiang Kai-shek - Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)
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It's mostly -- I've read excerpts, not the whole book -- about the people he's met and done business with, from Madame Chiang Kai-shek (avisitor to the family home when Saltman was a kid), Tip O'Neill (his godfather) and the Kennedy boys, to Cary Grant, Bob Hope and Steve Allen, to Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Wayne Gretzky.
SALTMAN WRITES NO EVEL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The enormous jet -- with its enlarged upper fuselage that can accommodate three times the cargo by volume of a standard 747-400 freighter -- gracefully took off under rainy skies from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (formerly Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport).
Aircraft News - North America by Airguide Online
Indeed, Mao's outright collaboration with Japanese intelligence is also detailed, showing how he stabbed Chiang Kai-shek in the back while the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang were fighting the invaders from Japan.
Reinvigorating Mao by Hoar, William P. / The New American
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