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050 4 $aDS778.C55$bF46 2004
100 1 $aFenby, Jonathan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80101391
245 10 $aChiang Kai shek :$bChina's Generalissimo and the nation he lost /$cJonathan Fenby.
250 $a1st Carroll & Graf ed.
260 $aNew York ;$aCarroll & Graf,$c2004.
300 $a562 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"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.
600 10 $aChiang, Kai-shek,$d1887-1975.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80057046
650 0 $aNationalists$zChina$vBiography.
651 0 $aChina$xHistory$yRepublic, 1912-1949.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024107
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