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

Having defeated the warlords in south and central China by military force, Chiang was able to secure the nominal allegiance of the warlords in the North.

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.

Chiang Kai-shek ( October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975 ) was a political and military leader of 20th-century Mainland China and Taiwan.

Chiang was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen.

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'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 was born in Xikou, a town approximately 30 kilometers southwest of downtown Ningbo, in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang.

During his trip in Russia, Chiang met Leon Trotsky and other Soviet leaders, but quickly came to the conclusion that the Russian model of government was not suitable for China.

Chiang Kai-shek returned to Guangzhou, and in 1924 was appointed Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy by Sun.

The NRA branched into three divisions: to the west was Wang Jingwei, who led a column to take Wuhan ; Bai Chongxi's column went east to take Shanghai ; Chiang himself led in the middle route, planning to take Nanjing before pressing ahead to capture Beijing.

Wang Jingwei's National Government was weak militarily, and was soon ended by Chiang with the support of a local warlord, ( Li Zongren of Guangxi ).

When told that it was not for sale, Chiang offered a million dollars to recover the photo and its negative.

In a pairing of great political significance, Chiang was Sun's brother-in-law: he had married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, Sun's widow, on December 1, 1927.

On Jan. 7, 1929, the Nationalist Information Bureau stated that Chiang was not a Christian After this, he was baptized in the Methodist church in 1929, a year after his marriage to Soong.

In the West and in the Soviet Union, Chiang Kai-shek was known as the " Red General ".

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.

The United States consulate and other Westerners in Shanghai were concerned about the approach of " Red General " Chiang, as his army was seizing control of large areas of the country in the Northern Expedition.

A picture was taken of Chiang with Borodin and Galens.

On October 10, 1928, Chiang was named director of the State Council, the equivalent to President of the country, in addition to his other titles.

Chiang did not like the Americans, and was suspicious of their motives.

Chiang was suspicious that covert operatives of the United States plotted a coup against him.

Chiang Kai-shek favored Chennault's plans, since he was suspicious of British colonial interests in Burma and was not prepared to begin major offensive operations against the Japanese.

Huang was suspicious of this, suspecting that Chiang feared that the Guangxi clique was take control of Xinjiang rather than Chiang's Nanjing regime.

His political inclinations are more controversial ; he is a very vocal critic of both the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party and their many politicians, including Chiang Kai-shek, Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian.

Kuomintang politicians Wang Jin-pyng, Lin Cheng-chih, P. K. Chiang, and Ma Ying-jeou draped her casket with the Kuomintang party flag and Kuomintang party elders Lee Huan, Hau Pei-tsun, Chiu Chuang-huan, and Shih Chi-yang draped her casket with the ROC national flag.

A contest ensued between Chiang, who stood at the right wing of the KMT, and Sun Yat-sen's close comrade-in-arms Wang Jingwei, who leaned towards the left.

Chiang only won the campaign against Hu after a shift in allegiance by the warlord Zhang Xueliang, who had previously supported Hu Hanmin.

After releasing Chiang and returning to Nanjing with him, Zhang was placed under house arrest and the generals who had assisted him were executed.

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.

Li's first choice of premier was Chu Cheng, a veteran member of the Kuomintang who had been virtually driven into exile due to his strong opposition to Chiang.

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.

Chiang was succeeded as President by Vice President Yen Chia-kan and as Kuomintang party leader by his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who retired Chiang Kai-shek's title of Director-General and instead assumed the position of Chairman.

Yen's presidency was interim ; Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the Premier, became President after Yen's term ended three years later.

Chiang was popular among many people and dressed in plain, simple clothes, unlike contemporary Chinese warlords who dressed extravagantly.

For some, Chiang was a national hero who led the victorious Northern Expedition against the Beiyang Warlords in 1927, achieving Chinese unification, and who subsequently led China to ultimate victory against Japan in 1945.

In the United States and Europe, Chiang was often perceived negatively as the one who lost China to the Communists.

Ma Buqing was another Muslim General who fled to Taiwan along with Chiang.

Chiang was assisted by Soviet advisors, who supplied him with weapons, while the merchants were supplied with weapons from the Western countries.

Rich merchants, industrialists, and entrepreneurs were arrested by Chiang, who accused them of being " counterrevolutionary ", and Chiang held them until they gave money to the Kuomintang.

Chiang also enforced an anti Japanese boycott, sending his agents to sack the shops of those who sold Japanese made items, fining them.

Ma Bufang was fully supported by the Kuomintang President of China Chiang Kaishek, who ordered him to prepare his Muslim army to invade Tibet several times and threatened aerial bombardment on the Tibetans.

When Chiang penned the work, he believed that the Guanyin we know today was actually a princess called Miaoshan ( 妙善 ), who had a religious following on Fragrant Mountain.