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The Generalissimo

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674033382

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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.

Generalissimo

Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781471142956

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Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928. Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient stature to attend a conference with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War, his desire for unity was always thwarted by threats on two fronts. Between them, the Japanese and the Communists succeeded in undermining Chiang's power-plays, and after Hiroshima it was Mao Zedong who ended up victorious. Brilliantly re-creating pre-Communist China in all its colour, danger and complexity, Jonathan Fenby's magisterial survey of this brave but unfulfilled life is destined to become the definitive account in the English language.

Chiang Kai Shek

Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786739844

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Chiang Kai Shek by Jonathan Fenby Pdf

With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller, this definitive biography of Chiang Kai-shek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of Nationalist China's generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life. Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the Nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. But while he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Drawing extensively on original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, acclaimed author Jonathan Fenby explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights. This is the definitive biography of the man who, despite his best intentions, helped create modern-day China.

The Generalissimo's Son

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0674044223

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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.

Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai Shek

Author : Basil Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494034077

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Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai Shek by Basil Miller Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

Generalissimo Stalin

Author : Boris Gorbachevskiĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1909384259

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Generalissimo Stalin by Boris Gorbachevskiĭ Pdf

This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage and continuous fighting of the Second World War refutes one of the primary Soviet myths: that it was Stalin's "brilliant strategic mind" and his "invaluable contributions" that brought about the eventual victory. Partially relying on his own frontline experience in fighting from Rzhev 1942 to Königsburg 1945, the author argues that the Red Army emerged victorious from the war in spite of the Kremlin tyrant, who never spared his soldiers' lives and who recognized only one strategy: to break the Wehrmacht's resistance by overloading it with the corpses of Red Army soldiers. He maintains that it was the people who won the war, but Stalin stole the mantle of victory and donned it himself after the war. Gorbachevsky goes on to argue that the Soviet regime and recent official Russian estimates deliberately understated the staggering true cost of that victory, and reveals the scandalous official mistreatment of returning prisoners-of-war, neglect of war invalids and disregard of the millions of soldiers' remains lying in shallow, unmarked, often fraternal graves and the millions more still listed as "missing-in-action" - all of which show the Stalinist system's disdain for human life.

MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF GENERALISSIMO

Author : RAFAEL L. TRUJILLOMOLINA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF GENERALISSIMO by RAFAEL L. TRUJILLOMOLINA Pdf

Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani

Author : Kevin McAuliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566491630

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Sayings of Generalissimo Giuliani by Kevin McAuliffe Pdf

This is not your standard political biography. the core of this book is--incontrovertibly and inescapably--Rudy Giuliani in his own words, being himself.

Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire

Author : John M. O'Flynn
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888640315

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Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire by John M. O'Flynn Pdf

John Micheal O'Flynn traces the development of the position of the generalissimo, or emperor's commander of the military forces, in the western part of the Roman Empire during the first century AD. From the arrogant barbarian Arbogast, who treated the youthful emperor Valentinian as his puppet, to Odovacar, who dismissed the last western emperor and was pronounced king of Italy in 476, the generalissimos' seizure of power led to dissolution and chaos from which would emerge the political patterns of medieval and modern Europe.

The Collected Wartime Messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, 1937-1945: China fights and builds (continued) China fights on with allies. China fights on to victory. Epilogue

Author : Kai-shek Chiang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015054062016

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The Collected Wartime Messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, 1937-1945: China fights and builds (continued) China fights on with allies. China fights on to victory. Epilogue by Kai-shek Chiang Pdf

Speech Delivered by Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Benefactor of the Nation and Father of the New Nation

Author : Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Dominican Republic
ISBN : NYPL:33433060803438

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Speech Delivered by Generalissimo Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Benefactor of the Nation and Father of the New Nation by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina Pdf