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Chiang Ching-kuo Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo , 1909-88, eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek , Chinese Nationalist leader, and president of Taiwan. Returning after 12 years in the Soviet Union (1937), he served in minor Chinese government posts until the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan (1949). Afterward he rose to control the armed... Read more
Chang Hsueh-liang Chang Hsueh-liang
Chang Hsüeh-liang or Zhang Xueliang , 1898-2001, Chinese warlord , son of Chang Tso-lin . On the death (1928) of his father, he succeeded as military governor of Manchuria. He was then known as Chang Hsiao-liang but later changed his name. Chang supported Chiang Kai-shek against a... Read more
Cairo Conference Cairo Conference
Cairo Conference Nov. 22-26, 1943, World War II meeting of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China at Cairo, Egypt. A joint declaration pledged continuation of the war against Japan until unconditional Japanese... Read more
Claire Lee Chennault Claire Lee Chennault
Claire Lee Chennault , 1890-1958, American general, b. Commerce, Tex. In World War I he was a pioneer in air pursuit tactics. Retired (1937) from the army, he went to China and organized air defenses for Chiang Kai-shek . He formed there (1941) the American Volunteer Group (known as the Flying... Read more
Warlords Warlords
warlord in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai , central authority fell to the provincial military governors and regional military groups... Read more
scorched earth policy scorched earth policy
scorched earth policy, whereby retreating armies destroyed or dismantled everything in the path of their advancing opponents to deprive them of shelter, food, natural resources, working factories, anything that might be of use to them. Chiang Kai-shek employed it during the China incident when he... Read more
Ledo Road Ledo Road
Ledo Road, 770 km. (478 mi.) long India–China supply road and oil pipeline built through the mountainous area of northern Burma. It ran from Ledo (situated in India near the northern border with Burma) to Myitkyina in northern Burma, then Bhamo, and finally to Muse where it... Read more
Mao Tse-tung Mao Tse-tung
Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976),a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party when it was formed in 1921. In 1934 he was hounded from the Chinese Soviet Republic in Kiangsi Province by Chiang Kai-shek, and he and his followers, who included Chou En-lai, then started the 10,000 km.... Read more
Wang Ching-wei Wang Ching-wei
Wang Ching-wei , 1883-1944, Chinese revolutionary and political leader. A supporter of Sun Yat-sen , Wang was sentenced (1910) to life imprisonment for attempting to assassinate the regent of China. Freed in 1912, he studied in France until 1917, when he became personal assistant to Sun. Upon Sun's... Read more
Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek , 1887-1975, Chinese Nationalist leader. He was also called Chiang Chung-cheng. After completing military training with the Japanese Army, he returned to China in 1911 and took part in the revolution against the Manchus (see Ch'ing ). Chiang was active (1913-16) in attempts to... Read more

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Mao's Nemesis in New York.(Henry R. Luce, Time and the American Crusade in...
Magazine article from: The New Leader ...dedicated Communists and Chiang's demoralized Nationalists...his reign in 1949 when Chiang retreated to Taiwan...despised Mao Zedong, loved Chiang Kaishek, and was a fervent interventionist bent on "saving China"--and later...
Workers at War: Labor in China's Arsenals, 1937-1950
Magazine article from: Business History Review ...quantities of weapons. True, Chiang had big plans to develop...all the way to Wuhan. Chiang Kaishek and the forces of "Free...naturally emphasized saving those factories, such...crucial to military needs. Chiang also used the circumstances...
God's chosen people.(The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century)(Book...
Magazine article from: Commonweal ...demanded that the United States unstintingly support Chiang Kaishek, Kuomintang leader and convert to Christianity, in...China was personal; he was determined to complete the saving work his father had begun. Yet Luce's ultimate aim...

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