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The Generalissimo's Son

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,7 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.

The Generalissimo

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Chiang Kai Shek

Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,7 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.

Generalissimos of the Western Roman Empire

Author : John M. O'Flynn
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 Generalissimo

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674735248

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The Generalissimo by Jay Taylor Pdf

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.

Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels

Author : M. Wainwright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230612051

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Darwin and Faulkner’s Novels by M. Wainwright Pdf

Displaying a wide range of knowledge and interpretive skill, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth century American author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness and charting the manner in which Faulkner learned and applied his evolutionary concepts, this book unsettles staid interpretations of the Falknerian canon and overturns habitual judgments as to the value of his later novels.

Foreign Relations of the United States

Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : China
ISBN : UIUC:30112065993385

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Foreign Relations of the United States

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951T00248672K

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Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

Author : Justin M. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806570

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Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State by Justin M. Jacobs Pdf

Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. By foregrounding the responses of Chinese and other imperial elites to the growing threat of national determination across Eurasia, Justin Jacobs argues for a reconceptualization of the modern Chinese state as a “national empire.” He shows how strategies for administering this region in the late Qing, Republican, and Communist eras were molded by, and shaped in response to, the rival platforms of ethnic difference characterized by Soviet and other geopolitical competitors across Inner and East Asia. This riveting narrative tracks Xinjiang political history through the Bolshevik revolution, the warlord years, Chinese civil war, and the large-scale Han immigration in the People’s Republic of China, as well as the efforts of the exiled Xinjiang government in Taiwan after 1949 to claim the loyalty of Xinjiang refugees.

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

Author : Jung Chang
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451493507

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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang Pdf

The most famous sisters in China, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power during a time of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations. Red Sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen; Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek; Big Sister, Ei-Ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser, and made herself one of China's richest women.

The Cairo Conference of 1943

Author : Ronald Ian Heiferman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786485093

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The Cairo Conference of 1943 by Ronald Ian Heiferman Pdf

For four days in November 1943, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss the future of the war in the China-Burma-India Theater and plans for the ultimate defeat of Japan. This would be the first and last time that these leaders would meet. This book chronicles the Cairo Conference, the events leading up to the conference, and the consequences of the decisions, understandings and misunderstandings that resulted from the summit. The only book-length study of the subject, this text examines the enormous impact the conference had on the course of the war in Asia and post-war Sino-Western relations.

Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia

Author : Hsiao-Ting Lin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000580839

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Taiwan, the United States, and the Hidden History of the Cold War in Asia by Hsiao-Ting Lin Pdf

This book explores the challenges which faced the United States and Taiwanese alliance during the Cold War, addressing a wide range of events and influences of the period between the 1950s and 1970s. Tackling seven main topics to outline the fluctuations of the U.S.–Taiwan relationship, this volume highlights the impact of the mainland counteroffensive, the offshore islands, Tibet, Taiwan’s secret operations in Asia, Taiwan’s Soviet and nuclear gambits, Chinese representation in the United Nations, and the Vietnam War. Utilizing multinational archival research, particularly the newly available materials from Taiwan and the United States, to reevaluate Taiwan’s foreign policy during the Cold War, revealing a pragmatic and opportunistic foreign policy disguised in nationalistic rhetoric. Moreover, this study represents a departure from previous scholarship, emphasizing the dictatorial and incompetent nature of the Chinese Nationalist regime, to provide fresh insights into the nature of U.S.–Taiwan relations. Presenting a revisionist view of one of the strongest bilateral relationships of the Cold War, this will be an insightful resource for scholars and students of Chinese and East Asia History, Cold War History, Asian Studies, and International Relations.

Faulkner’s Fables of Creativity

Author : Gary Harrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349108374

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Faulkner’s Fables of Creativity by Gary Harrington Pdf

In this study of the five novels set outside the fictional county, Yoknapatawpha, the author devotes a chapter to each novel and develops the theme that these texts present in fictional form Faulkner's reflections on his aesthetic development and on the mutual responsibilities of writer and reader.

Islam in the Eastern African Novel

Author : E. Mirmotahari
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119291

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Islam in the Eastern African Novel by E. Mirmotahari Pdf

This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts.

From Hitler to Trujillo

Author : Alfredo F. Vorshirm
Publisher : Bitingduck Press LLC
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781886420922

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From Hitler to Trujillo by Alfredo F. Vorshirm Pdf

From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth, when World War II broke out, Vorshirm and his family found themselves imprisoned by the European Allies because they were Austrian-German enemies. Then he was imprisoned by the Germans when he was caught in a raid without legal identification papers and in possession of illegal foreign currency. After being held and tortured in a Gestapo jail for nearly a year, he joined the Italian partisans where he was wounded. He had become separated from his parents who went to Switzerland where they thought they would be safe. Eventually, he served with a unit of the US 82nd Airborne Division and took part in the liberation of Europe. After the war, searching for a homeland, circumstances caused him to choose residence in the Dominican Republic. Vorshirm served the Dominican Republic as a Senior Army Officer in a top post with the Technological Services of the Armed Forces, as a Representative to the UN in New York and Geneva, and as a diplomat in Belgium, until he was abruptly removed and ordered back to the Dominican Republic. For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com.