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"Chiang Kai-shek was one of the most influential world figures of the twentieth century. The leader of the Kuomintang, the nationalist movement in China, by 1928 he had established himself as head of the government in Nanking. While he managed to survive the political storms of the 1930s, and although he was the only Chinese statesman of sufficient stature to attend the Cairo conference with Churchill and Roosevelt during World War II, Chiang's power was continually being undermined by the Japanese on one side and the Chinese Communists on the other. Once Japan met its unequivocal defeat in 1945, civil war again erupted in China, and four years later Mao Zedong claimed victory for the Communists." "Jonathan Fenby recreates pre-Communist China in all its color, danger, and complexity. Drawing extensively upon original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists, he explores little-known international connections in Chiang's story - like Madame Chiang Kai-shek's relationship with American presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie; the strategies of the American General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell; like the collaboration of a highly uninformed American team with Mao and his Red Army - as he unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights."--BOOK JACKET.
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Chiang Kai-shek: China's generalissimo and the nation he lost
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"IN LATE OCTOBER and early November of 1887, China suffered droughts, flooding of the Yellow River and cholera outbreaks in the cities of Nanking and Hangzhou."
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"IN LATE OCTOBER and early November of 1887, China suffered droughts, flooding of the Yellow River and cholera outbreaks in the cities of Nanking and Hangzhou."
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