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As Chiang Kai-shek entered his final years, he gradually gave more responsibilities to his son, and when he died in April 1975, the presidency was turned over to Yen Chia-kan and Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the Kuomintang ( he opted for the title " Chairman " rather than the elder Chiang's title of " Director-General ").
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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China.
Chiang Kai-shek ( October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975 ) was a political and military leader of 20th-century Mainland China and Taiwan.
Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.
Chiang Kai-shek in 1907 at the Baoding Military Academy
Chiang Kai-shek returned to Guangzhou, and in 1924 was appointed Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy by Sun.
In the West and in the Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek was known as the " Red General ".
Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) with future Prime Minister of Japan | Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai ( center ), Pan-Asianism | Pan-Asianist leader Tōyama Mitsuru ( left ) in Japan ( 1929 )
Contrary to Communist propaganda that Chiang was pro-capitalism, Chiang Kai-shek antagonized the capitalists of Shanghai, often attacking them and confisticating their capital and assets for the use of the government.
The relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese capitalists remained poor throughout the period of his administration.
Once Chiang Kai-shek was done with his White Terror on pro-communist laborers, he proceeded to turn on the capitalists.
Chiang Kai-shek ( right ) meets with the Muslim Generals Ma Bufang ( second from left ), and Ma Buqing ( first from left ) in Xining at August 1942.
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This was meant to fulfill President Roosevelt's promise to Chiang Kai-shek to begin bombing operations against Japan by November 1944.
Chiang and entered
For over a year after the Japanese surrender, rumors circulated throughout China that the Japanese had entered into a secret agreement with Chiang, in which the Japanese would assist the Nationalists in fighting the Communists in exchange for the protection of Japanese persons and property there.
In early 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo entered the Shanghai's Pudong college, but immediately afterwards Chiang Kai-shek decided to send him on to Beijing because of warlord action and spontaneous riots in Shanghai.
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Chiang and final
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After successfully besieging the adjacent regions of Ruijin, the capital of the Jiangxi Soviet, and occupying most of Jiangxi Soviet itself, Chiang was confident that he would finish off the communists in a final decisive strike.
In late September 1934, Chiang distributed his top secret plan named " Iron Bucket Plan " to everyone in his general headquarter at Lushan ( the alternative summer site to Nanchang ), which detailed the final push to totally annihilate the communist forces.
Although it was called the Beiyi Freeway ( Chinese abbreviation for Taipei to Yilan ) prior to its final completion in June 2006, the official name is the Chiang Wei-shui Memorial Freeway, after the early twentieth century Taiwanese political activist and Yilan native Chiang Wei-shui ( 蔣渭水, Japanese: Sho Isui ).
Chiang and years
The early years at Whampoa allowed Chiang to cultivate a cadre of young officers loyal to both the KMT and himself.
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Since he was eleven years her elder, already married, and a Buddhist, May-ling's mother vehemently opposed the marriage between the two, but finally agreed after Chiang showed proof of his divorce and promised to convert to Christianity.
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During the early years of his term in office Chiang maintained many of his father's autocratic policies, continuing to rule Taiwan as a military state under martial law as it had been since the Nationalists established its capital there.
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" (" Chiang ... China ... live ten thousand years ... live ten thousand ten thousand years ").
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