And then I put the question as pointedly as I could directly to Chiang Kai-shek: `` In America '', I said, `` practically no one believes that you subjectively intend to re-enter the Mainland.

* 1927 – April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.

There was a 3 day ban after the death of Chiang Kai-shek.

Shortly after World War II, the civil war resumed in China between the Kuomintang ( KMT ) led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong.

Chiang Kai-shek and 600, 000 Nationalist troops and 2 million refugees, predominantly from the government and business community, fled from the mainland to the island of Taiwan.

Though the United States refused to aide Chiang Kai-shek in his hope to " recover the mainland ," it continued supporting the Republic of China with military supplies and expertise to prevent Taiwan from falling into PRC hands.

After Sun's death from cancer in 1925, one of his protégés, Chiang Kai-shek, seized control of the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party or KMT ) and succeeded in bringing most of south and central China under its rule in a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition ( 1926 – 1927 ).

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

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.

In 1942 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally went on tour in Northwestern China in Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, and Qinghai, where he met both Muslim Generals Ma Buqing and Ma Bufang.

Under orders from Chiang Kai-shek, Ma Bufang repaired Yushu airport to prevent Tibetan separatists from seeking independence.

Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers.

This was meant to fulfill President Roosevelt's promise to Chiang Kai-shek to begin bombing operations against Japan by November 1944.

The Japanese invasion had given him the opportunity he had long sought to establish a new government outside of Chiang Kai-shek's control.

Soong was part of the Palace Faction ( 宮廷派 ) that included Chiang loyalists such as Hau Pei-tsun and Lee Huan and which sought to limit Lee Teng-hui and his native Taiwanese faction's role in the government.

However, the two states then fought each other and Chiang Hung sought Siamese support.

General Alexander von Falkenhausen, leader of Chiang's second team of German military advisors, indicated that he supported Li's proposal to abandon Nanking and urged Chiang to avoid sacrificing his troops and materiel uselessly.

For this reason, Chiang was also extremely grateful to Tang for assuming command of the Nanking Garrison and thus allowing Chiang to avoid the dilemma posed by the situation.

The media in mainland China has always referred to the airport as " Taoyuan International Airport " so as to avoid mentioning Chiang Kai-shek.

During the Kumul Rebellion Chiang Kai-shek was ready to sent Huang Shaohong and his expeditionary force which he assembled to assist Muslim General Ma Zhongying against Sheng Shicai, but when Chiang heard about the Soviet Invasion of Xinjiang, he decided to withdraw to avoid an international incident if his troops directly engaged the Soviets, leaving Ma alone with not reinforcements to fight the Red Army.

At the same time, Chiang was also extremely grateful to Tang for assuming command of the Nanking Garrison and thus allowing Chiang to avoid the dilemma posed by the situation.

" The Chinese media changed the airport name from CKS airport to " Taoyuan airport " to avoid mentioning the name of former leader of KMT and the late President of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek.

After the end of the China anti-Japan war in 1945 ( WWII ), Mao was invited by Chiang to Chongqing for peace negotiation in order to avoid civil war between CPC and KMT.

:* 1934-1936: The Long March, a strategic retreat to avoid destruction by the Nationalist armies of Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang often resolved issues of warlord obstinacy through military action, but such action was costly in terms of men and materiel.

With the early successes of the Expedition, there was soon a race between Chiang Kai-shek leading the " right-wing " of the Nationalist Party and the Communists, running inside the " left-wing " of the Nationalists, for control of major southern cities such as Nanjing and Shanghai.

Having accomplished that, Chiang Ching-kuo proposed and the government then started state projects such as the Ten Major Construction Projects that provided the infrastructure for building a strong export-driven economy.

During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a " public information desk " where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1, 023 people during such sessions in 1942.

Due to the large number of refugees in Ganzhou as a result from the ongoing war, thousands of orphans lived on the street ; in June 1942, Chiang Ching-kuo formally established the Chinese Children's Village ( 中華兒童新村 ) in the outskirts of Ganzhou, with facilities such as a nursery, kindergarten, primary school, hospital and gymnasium.

Chiang Kai-shek and his staff such as Chen Cheng realized that he could not risk annihilation of their elite troops in a symbolic but hopeless defense of the capital ; therefore, in order to preserve these forces for future battles, most of them were withdrawn.

What Chiang needed was someone who would accept the responsibility for conducting the defense of the city, however hopeless such an effort might be.

However, Chiang was extremely reluctant to give up the capital without a fight and nobody else would dare to make such decision and accept the wrath of the angry Chinese public either.

The effectiveness of the KMT was constantly hindered by leadership and personal struggles, such as that between Wang and Chiang.

Moats were also used in the Forbidden City and Xi ' an in China ; in Vellore in India ; and in Southeast Asia, such as at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and Chiang Mai in Thailand.

Chiang Kai-shek's response to the invasion had been weak and he had failed to support commanders such as Marshal Zhang who had fought back to halt their advance.

They miscalculated however, and his son quickly pledged his allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek, turning his forces over to Kuomintang control and supported Chiang in his war of unification against other warlords such as Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan.

However, warlords such as Li Zongren and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die.

Furthermore, most of the western powers, such as the United States and United Kingdom, preferred a peaceful resolution to the incident, for they regarded Chiang as the ideal person to govern China.

Most of the leaders such as Mao and Zhu De proposed the execution of Chiang for his suppressions, which had damaged the CPC immensely.

Some of them, such as Zhou Enlai and Zhang Wentian, did realize it could bring more damage to the anti-Japan movement if Chiang was executed.

In many cities, such as Chiang Mai, the Buddha images from all of the city's important monasteries are paraded through the streets so that people can toss water at them, ritually ' bathing ' the images, as they pass by on ornately decorated floats.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

Events such as the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979 highlighted the need for change and groups like Amnesty International were mobilizing a campaign against the government and President Chiang Ching-kuo.

Hui people who have also migrated to the south such as this Darunaman Mosque, locating in Chiang Rai province, Thailand shows a great mixture between Chinese and Islamic architecture.