" Chiang's body was put in a copper coffin and temporarily interred at his favorite residence in Cihu, Dasi, Taoyuan.

Chiang's body lies in the main hall of the residence.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Communists.

Chiang's father died when he was only eight years of age, and he wrote of his mother as the " embodiment of Confucian virtues ".

Although Wang succeeded Sun as Chairman of the National Government, Chiang's relatively low position in the party's internal hierarchy was bolstered by his military backing and adept political maneuvering following the Zhongshan Warship Incident.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

This disrupted Chiang's offensives against the Communists for a time, although it was the northern factions of Hu Hanmin's Guangzhou ( Canton ) government ( notably the 19th Route Army ) that primarily led the offensive against the Japanese during this skirmish.

Chiang's commitment to the Second United Front was nominal at best, and it was all but broken up in 1941.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

In 1945, when Japan surrendered, Chiang's Chongqing government was ill-equipped and ill-prepared to reassert its authority in formerly Japanese-occupied China, and asked the Japanese to postpone their surrender until Kuomintang ( KMT ) authority could arrive to take over.

Chiang's right hand man, the secret police Chief Dai Li, was both anti-American and anti-Communist.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

In mainland China, however, Chiang's death was met with little apparent mourning and Communist state-run newspapers gave the brief headline " Chiang Kai-shek Has Died.

Chiang's portrait hung over the gate of the Forbidden City before Mao's portrait was set up in its place.

Similarly, the monument erected to Chiang's memory in Taipei, known in English as Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, was literally named " Chung Cheng Memorial Hall " in Chinese.

The Yihewani ( Ikhwan al Muslimun a. k. a. Muslim brotherhood ) was the predominant Muslim sect backed by the Chiang government during Chiang's regime.

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Kung's son David was arrested, the Kung's responded by blackmailing the Chiang's, threatening to release information about them, eventually he was freed after negotiations, and Ching-kuo resigned, ending the terror on the Shanghainese merchants.

Chiang considered all the minorities to belong to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China, and the Constitution of the ROC considered Chiang's ideology to be true.

This action was also of great importance for the Communist Party of China, as it has been argued that following the Nanjing Massacre Chiang's failure to break off the Trautmann Mediation led to the perception that the entire Kuomintang was weak.

However, Chiang's successor as president, Lee Teng-hui, proved to be more adept at politics than she was, and consolidated his position.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

With help from foreign military advisers, Chiang's Fifth Campaign finally surrounded the Chinese Red Army in 1934.

Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ( not the same ' National Government ' as Chiang's ), and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang / anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades.

Abusive incidents occurred following a drunk American General making comments about Chiang's regime, and a low point in Sino-American relations followed the rape of a Chinese university student by American marines shortly after World War II.

Seeking to promote Chinese nationalism, Chiang's government actively ignored and suppressed local cultural expression, even forbidding the use of local languages in mass media broadcasts or during class sessions.

Even after the war Stalin concluded a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Chiang's KMT regime in China and instructed Mao and the Chinese communists to cooperate with Chiang and the KMT after the war.

Initially, Chinese forces surrounding Shanghai included the bulk of Chiang's best-trained forces.

The Chinese suffered 250, 000 casualties, 60 % of Chiang's most elite soldiers, while the Japanese took 40, 000 or more casualties.

It was briefly the seat of Chiang's ROC government during the Chinese civil war with the Communist Party of China.

* Chongqing ( CPMR: Chungking ) was the provisional capital of the government of Chiang Kai-shek during World War II ( Second Chinese-Japanese War ), and was briefly the seat of Chiang's ROC government during the Chinese civil war with the Communist Party of China.

:: Republic of China: it was seat of the National Government before the Northern Expedition, and was briefly the seat of Chiang's ROC government during the Chinese civil war with the Communist Party of China.

Stalin believed that Chiang's execution would not be beneficial to either Chinese resistance to Japan or Soviet interests in the Far East.

He was instrumental in defeating Chiang's rival warlords in the Central Plains War and expanding KMT military power throughout the 1930s by defeating Chinese Communist forces in Henan Province.

They weren't successful, but lack of cooperation and rivalry continued to plague China through much of the years following, eventually leading to the demise of Chiang's regime in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.

However, Chiang's troops expanded their control in North China and the Japanese Army continued to distrust the forces of Chinese nationalism.

In 1936 the Secretariat of the Comintern issued a telegram to the Secretariat of CCP to point out the error of listing Chiang with Japan as the archenemies of Chinese revolution, and that it was necessary to include Chiang's army in the war against Japan.

The fourth campaign ( 1932 – 1933 ) achieved some early successes, but Chiang's armies were badly mauled when they tried to penetrate into the heart of Mao Zedong's Soviet Chinese Republic.

In 1936 Manchurian warlord and Chiang's former ally Zhang Xueliang decided to conspire with the CPC and kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek in Xi ' an to force an end to the conflict between KMT and CPC.

However, Chiang's influence never extended beyond the Yangtze Delta, and the rest of the country was under the effective control of former warlords, and Chiang faced insurrections from them throughout the 1930s, even after the Northern Expedition, which had nominally unified the country.

Aside from Chiang's former residence and related nostalgia, Fenghua has relatively few relics from the past.