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Three years ago this month I presented to the Columbia University Seminar on Modern West Asia China a paper on certain aspects of the politics of Chiang Kaishek During the discussion that followed my presentation it was suggested that I undertake a systematic psychological study of Chiangs politics Though somewhat skeptical at the time I soon came to accept the soundness of the suggestion For some time I had indeed felt that while Chiang the political man must be assessed as has often been done in terms of the demands of his society he should be viewed as a political actor on his own terms as well Now influenced by the discussion I became persuaded that whatever bibliographic and methodological limitations might exists in the study of and in my study of the politics and personality of Chiang such an effort would be a step in the right direction
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This engrossing memoir tells the fascinating story of one of Chinas great leaders during the Nationalist revolution of the 1920s and of the woman who paid a staggering price so that he could attain his ambition The tale begins in 1919 when the thirtytwoyearold Chiang Kaishek met the naïve thirteenyearold whom he would call Chen Chiehju He pursued her relentlessly for two years until she finally agreed to marry her brash and forceful suitor Chiehju was at her husbands side constantly for the seven years of their marriage which enabled her to chronicle with immediacy and vivid detail his singleminded pursuit of power in the Kuomintang KMTSo explosive were her revelations that the KMT used threats and bribes to block US publication plans in the 1960s Now her longsuppressed memoir finally reveals Chiang Kaisheks human side which has been shrouded in myth Chiang Kaishek emerges as a lustful illtempered quarrelsome stubborn and boundlessly ambitious man In pursuit of his goals he abandoned the young wife he seemingly loved to make a politically expedient alliance with Soong Meiling now famed as Madame Chiang Despite his betrayal Chiehjus love for her husband is clearly evident She paints here a stirring portrait of their personal life as well as of the infighting and intrigue that marked her husbands early political career Above all her story conveys a keen sense of the texture of upperclass life in the China of that period a quality academic studies rarely capture
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The existence of two Chinese statesone controlling mainland China the other controlling the island of Taiwanis often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese civil war Defeated by Mao Zedong Chiang Kaisheks Nationalists fled to Taiwan to establish a rival state thereby creating the Two Chinas dilemma that vexes international diplomacy to this day Accidental State challenges this conventional narrative to offer a new perspective on the founding of modern TaiwanHsiaoting Lin marshals extensive research in recently declassified archives to show that the creation of a Taiwanese state in the early 1950s owed more to serendipity than careful geostrategic planning It was the cumulative outcome of ad hoc halfmeasures and imperfect compromises particularly when it came to the Nationalists often contentious relationship with the United StatesTaiwans political status was fraught from the start The island had been formally ceded to Japan after the First SinoJapanese War and during World War II the Allies promised Chiang that Taiwan would revert to Chinese rule after Japans defeat But as the Chinese civil war turned against the Nationalists US policymakers reassessed the wisdom of backing Chiang The idea of placing Taiwan under United Nations trusteeship gained traction Cold War realities and the fear of Taiwan falling into Communist hands led Washington to recalibrate US policy Yet American support of a Taiwanbased Republic of China remained ambivalent and Taiwan had to eke out a place for itself in international affairs as a de facto if not fully sovereign state
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A biography of the longtime Chinese political and military leader who established his government in Taiwan when the Communists took control of China in 1949
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With a narrative as briskly paced and vividly detailed as an international thriller this definitive new biography of Chiang Kaishek masterfully maps the tumultuous political career of nationalist Chinas Generalissimo as it reevaluates his brave but unfulfilled life Chiang Kaishek 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 Chiangs 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 Featuring pages of photographs and drawing extensively upon original Chinese sources and accounts by contemporaneous journalists Jonathan Fenby unfolds a story as fascinating in its conspiratorial intrigues as it is remarkable for its psychological insights
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Though much has been written about the second and third encounters of Stalin Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta and Potsdam their first meeting at Teheran has been unaccountably neglected This book sets out to repair that omission and bring to light the people and decisions that changed the course of history at Teheran Setting all three conferences in the context of other key events in 1943 it shows shows how Teheran was in may ways the turning point of the war and reveals a critical and often neglected event in recent history
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In late 1940 General Vasilii Chuikov was sent by the Soviet government to China to serve as chief military adviser to General Chiang Kaishek head of the Nationalist government China was still fighting alone against Japan after more than three years of war It was Chuikovs task to oversee the provision of Soviet military aid to Chiangs armies and to press the Chinese leadership toward a more aggressive resistance to the Japanese Chuikov arrived with experience as he had studied Chinese as an officer cadet and had been twice sent to China on missions in the 1920snbspChuikovs evaluation of the Chinese Army was much more positive than that of American and British observers of the time While he recognized problems in the highly politicized senior command he commended the fighting spirit of the junior officers and the enlisted men Chuikov not only saw Nationalist China as unconquerable he also believed that the Nationalists were capable of sustained offensive operations against the Japanese From his field inspections he offers professional assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the Chinese army and he subjects a number of major engagements fought in 1941 to close analysisChuikovs memoir ranges widely He portrays in sharp outline the Nationalist military elite he memorably describes life in the wartime capital of Chungking and he writes vividly of his travels through rural China On his return to the Soviet Union in 1942 Chuikov was assigned command of the 62nd army and made his name as the victor of StalingradThis perceptive and keenly observed memoir written by one of the great commanders of the Second World War is suffused with deep sympathy for the Chinese people in their resistance struggle
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The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedongs Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was lost Despite their significance there have been few studies in English of the wars major campaigns The LiaoShen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of Chinas northeast After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area Chinas largest industrial base and a major source of coal Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports both still under Soviet control When American mediation over control of Manchuria failed fullscale civil war broke out By spring of 1946 Chiang Kaisheks Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern economically developed part of Manchuria pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua Sungari River But over the next two years the tide would turn The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces This is the story of that campaign and its outcome which were to have such farreaching consequences
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Mayling Soong came to America at the age of 10 Her father Charlie Soong a practicing Christian who had spent time in America was convinced that Chinas youth would need progressive Western educations before returning to their homeland to take their places as leaders in the fields of government education and engineering The youngest of three daughters Mayling followed her older siblings to the United States in search of a Western education eventually entering Wellesley in 1913 at age 16 Here she made numerous friends including classmate Emma DeLong Mills This lifelong friendship lasted through Maylings 1927 marriage to General Chiang Kaishek and his subsequent rise to power After the undeclared SinoJapanese war broke out Emma began a series of letters detailing the political climate in the isolationist United States providing Mayling with invaluable insight into American attitudes regarding China and her Asian neighbors Beginning with the early days of their friendship in America the volume describes the identity struggle both women faced following their 1917 graduation from Wellesley Following Emmas visit to China and somewhat unwilling return to New York the friendship continued through their correspondence Emmas role in the newly organized American Bureau of Medical Aid to China is discussed as are Madame Chiang Kaisheks international fundraising efforts on behalf of Chinese war relief While military and political history is not the focus of the work it is portrayed as it impacts the friendship which is the subject of this book
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One of the most momentous stories of the last century is Chinas rise from a selfsatisfied antimodern decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States Chiang Kaishek an autocratic largerthanlife figure dominates this story A modernist as well as a neoConfucianist Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions civil conflict and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression In 1949 when he was defeated by Mao Zedonghis archrival for leadership of Chinahe fled to Taiwan where he ruled for another twentyfive years Playing a key role in the cold war with China Chiang suppressed opposition with his white terror controlled inflation and corruption carried out land reform and raised personal income health and educational levels on the island Consciously or not he set the stage for Taiwans evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiangs diaries The Generalissimo provides the most lively sweeping and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few if any in modern history Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiangs life Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan
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The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedongs Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to heated recriminations about how China was lost Despite their significance there have been few studies in English of the wars major campaigns The LiaoShen Campaign was the final act in the struggle for control of Chinas northeast After the Soviet defeat of Japan in Manchuria Communist Chinese and then Nationalist troops moved into this strategically important area Chinas largest industrial base and a major source of coal Manchuria had extensive railways and key ports both still under Soviet control When American mediation over control of Manchuria failed fullscale civil war broke out By spring of 1946 Chiang Kaisheks Nationalist armies had occupied most of the southern economically developed part of Manchuria pushing Communist forces north of the Songhua Sungari River But over the next two years the tide would turn The Communists isolated the Nationalist armies and mounted a major campaign aimed at destroying the Kuomintang forces This is the story of that campaign and its outcome which were to have such farreaching consequences
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Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern TaiwanSun Yatsen Chiang Kaishek and Chiang Chingkuoin a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theoryDavid J Lorenzos comparative study allows the reader to understand the leaders democratic conceptions and highlights important contradictions strengths and weaknesses that are central to any discussion of Chinese culture and democratic theory Lorenzo further considers the influence of their writings on political theorists democracy advocates and activists on mainland ChinaStudents of political science and theory democratization and Chinese culture and history will benefit from the books substantive discussions of democracy and scholars and specialists will appreciate the larger arguments about the influence of these ideas and their transmission through time
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This new and meticulously researched biography of the controversial American commander Joe Stilwell presents an admirably lucid account of his career and the complex story of the Burma campaign Stilwell spent most of World War II as Chiang KaiSheks chief of staff in China He was often at odds with the British generals Wavell Slim and Wingate men with whom he was to cooperate in Burma These arguments earned him the nickname of Vinegar Joe Stilwell and George Marshall had planned to have ninety Chinese divisions armed by the USA Had they succeeded in 1945 they would have been strong enough to defeat the Communists and would have changed the course of Chinese if not world history Although Chiang had Stilwell dismissed he recognized his contribution to the Burma Road campaign by renaming part of it the Stilwell Road This sympathetic but critical biography analyses the passions of an American patriot infuriated by Chiangs dishonesty and chicanery and looks at the possible outcome had Stilwells views prevailed After World War II service in the Far East and Ghana David Rooney read history at Oxford and subsequently took a research degree in Commonwealth History His career in education included four years as Senior Lecturer at RMA Sandhurst His writings include Burma Victory considered by Brigadier Michael Calvert the best book yet on the Burma Campaign Wingate and the Chindits Mad Mike and his recent highly acclaimed Guerrilla Robert Lyman is the author of the bestselling Slim Master of War
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Chiang Kaishek was the man who lost China to the Communists As leader of the nationalist movement the Kuomintang Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928 Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient stature to attend a conference with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War his desire for unity was always thwarted by threats on two fronts Between them the Japanese and the Communists succeeded in undermining Chiangs powerplays and after Hiroshima it was Mao Zedong who ended up victorious Brilliantly recreating preCommunist China in all its colour danger and complexity Jonathan Fenbys magisterial survey of this brave but unfulfilled life is destined to become the definitive account in the English language
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