Wang had clearly lost control of the KMT by 1926, when, following the Zhongshan Warship Incident, Chiang successfully sent Wang and his family to vacation in Europe.

Although Chiang described his perseverance during the ordeal in Half Month In Xian, parts of his journal were clearly fabricated.

Under Chiang Kai-Shek, the government recognized limited civil and economic freedoms, property rights ( personal and intellectual ) and other liberties.

As part of his efforts to bring Japan into Barbarossa, on 1 July 1941, Ribbentrop had Germany break off diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek and instead recognized the Japanese-puppet government of Wang Jingwei as China's legitimate government.

Formerly the head of the feared secret police, Chiang Ching-kuo recognized gaining foreign support to securing the ROC's future security required reform.

He had also recognized Chiang Kai-Shek's government, and furthermore distrusted any communist movement that was not under his direct control.

The resolution, passed in October 25, 1971, recognized the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) as " the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations " and expelled " the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations.

In December 1936, Chiang flew to Xi ' an to coordinate a major assault on the Red Army and the Communist Republic that had retreated into Yan ' an.

The former warlord Yan Xishan, who had fled to Nanking only one month before, quickly insinuated himself within the Li-Chiang rivalry, attempting to have Li and Chiang reconcile their differences in the effort to resist the Communists.

After Yan communicated these demands and Chiang agreed to comply with them, Li departed for Guangdong.

By this time Yan was well known for his adaptability, and Chiang welcomed his appointment.

Yan Xishan continued in his attempts to work with both sides, creating the impression among Li's supporters that he was a " stooge " of Chiang, while those who supported Chiang began to bitterly resent Yan for his willingness to work with Li.

Calligraphy Chiang Kai-shek etched on a rock in Quemoy reads, " Forget not that you're in Jǔ "— an allusion to the Warring States Period when the State of Qi, cornered into the City of Ju by the State of Yan, successfully counterattacked and retook its territory.

From right to left, are Generals Cheng Jin ( 何成浚 ), Zhang Zuobao ( 張作寶 ), Chen Diaoyuan ( 陳調元 ), Chiang Kai-shek, Woo Tsin-hang, Yan Xishan, Ma Fuxiang, Ma Sida ( 馬四達 ), and Bai Chongxi.

Between 1929 and 1930, Wang collaborated with Feng Yuxiang and Yan Xishan to form a central government in opposition to the one headed by Chiang.

After his move to the central government, Kung continued to advocate for good relations between Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan.

Yan's opposition to Chiang during the 1930 Central Plains War caused Yan to formally retire from all positions of leadership in Shanxi, and to flee to the Manchurian city of Dalian.

Kung's tireless advocacy for Yan within the central government was successful, as Chiang allowed Yan to return to Shanxi in 1931.

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.

After his own falling out with Chiang, Li joined Yan Xishan's revolt in the Central Plains War.

After a falling out with Chiang, Li joined Yan Xishan's revolt in the Central Plains War.

Local provincial warlords who seized or enhanced their power included Li Zongren of the New Guangxi Clique, Yan Xishan of the Shanxi clique, Feng Yuxiang and his Northwestern or Guominjun Clique, Tang Shengzhi in Hunan, Chiang Kuang-Nai in Fujian, Sheng Shicai of Xinjiang, Long Yun of Yunnan, Wang Jialie of Guizhou, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui of the Sichuan Clique, Han Fuqu of Shandong, Bie Tingfang ( 别廷芳 ) of Henan, the Ma Clique of Ma Bufang and his family in Qinghai, Ma Hongkui in Ningxia, and Ma Zhongying in Gansu, Chen Jitang and his Cantonese Clique, Lu Diping ( 鲁涤平 ) of Jiangxi and Jing Yuexiu ( 井岳秀 ) of Shaanxi.

Chiang then invited Mao to Chongqing for peace talks, during which, Yan Xishan sent his armies to attack CPC territories in Shanxi under Chiang's authorisation.

Yan's forces were easily routed by the forces of Chiang Kai-shek, and Yan was forced to live for a short period in exile.

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* Chiang Kai-shek, de facto leader of the Republic of China, was sometimes referred as lingxiu ()

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Over the years Nikita Khrushchev, Soong May-ling ( Madame Chiang Kai-shek ), Golda Meir, Indira Gandhi, Muhammad Ali, Charles de Gaulle, Robert Redford, Boris Yeltsin, Elizabeth Taylor, Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, and the Dalai Lama and Angelina Jolie have all spoken at the club.

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Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums and Les Extras de Mézières in his library.

In February 1943, the International Settlement was de jure returned to the Chinese as part of the British – Chinese Treaty for the Relinquishment of Extra-Territorial Rights in China and US China Treaty for Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights with the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek.

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Monkeys have often been favourite pets of queens such as Catherine de ' Medici and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. Mao Zedong's wife Chiang Ch ' ing also had a favoured pet monkey.

The following year, Amery went to China to work with General Carton de Wiart, then Prime Minister's Personal Representative to Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek.

When the Thais captured Angkor Wat in 1432 ( following the ravage of the bubonic plague ), the Emerald Buddha was taken to Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng Phet, Laos and finally Chiang Rai, where the ruler of the city hid it.

Son of the King Phra Chao Photisarath of Lan Xang, he became ruler of Chiang Mai in 1546.

Silkworm Books, pp. 118 – 127 source records the history of Setthathirath as a ruler of both Lan Chang and Chiang Mai

Photisarath married a princess from Chiang Mai ( now part of northern Thailand ), and when his father-in-law, the ruler of Chiang Mai, died in 1546 without male issue, Photisarath had his own son Setthathirat I placed on the Chiang Mai throne.

When the Thais captured Angkor Wat in 1432 ( following the ravage of the bubonic plague ), the Emerald Buddha was taken to Ayutthaya, Kamphaeng Phet, Laos and finally Chiang Rai, where the ruler of the city hid it.

The white elephant is a royal symbol in Thailand, and it is depicted to remember the offering of a white elephant by King Rama II to the ruler of Chiang Mai.

Additionally, he had close relationships with the neighboring rulers of nearby city-states, namely Ngam Muang, the ruler of neighboring Phayao ( whose wife he, according to legend, seduced ) and King Mangrai of Chiang Mai.

King Mangrai was born on October 2, 1238 in Ngoen Yang, ( present day Chiang Saen ), in Thailand on the Mekong River, as the son of the local ruler Lao Meng and his wife Ua Ming Chommueang, a princess from the Tai Lue city of Chiang Rung, which is now called Jinghong, in Sipsongpanna ( Xishuangbanna ), Yunnan, China.

He told the British cabinet that there was no conceivable alternative to Chiang as ruler of China.

* Chao Luang Budhawong ( เจ ้ าหลวงพ ุ ทธวงศ ์) was the fourth prince ruling of Chiang Mai. He was the ruler of Chiang Mai for 20 years, from 1825-1846