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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.
Chiang Kai-shek [ˈtʃæŋ kaɪˈʃɛk], Jiang Jie Shi
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(Biographies / Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) M, Chinese, MILITARY: general, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: head of state) original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887-1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928-31; 1943-49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950-75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937-45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)
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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)
Chiang Chung-cheng


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In opposition to the North's policy of gradualism and negotiation diplomacy, Jiang Jieshi was strident in his public declaration of November 1926 that "the people of China would never be satisfied with a mere revision of the treaties.
The discourse of Unequal Treaties in modern China (1) by Wang, Dong / Pacific Affairs
Rather, he shared with Jiang Jieshi a profound ignorance of Vietnam and its politics, a distaste for French colonialism and a strong desire to keep order and withdraw Chinese troops as quickly as possible.
Occupation and Revolution: China and the Vietnamese August Revolution ... by Young, Marilyn B. / Pacific Affairs
Whampoa graduates thus became an important political base for the Guomindang government, and particularly for Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), though, as Li shows in a study of the Whampoa alumni-dominated Young Officers' Movement of the 1930s, Jiang successfully restricted any nationalist impulses toward independent political action.
Student Nationalism in China: 1924-1949 by McCord, Edward A. / Pacific Affairs
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