Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story.
Author: Jay Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674054714
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 736
View: 774
One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's 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.
as 1949, the year of the ox, began, the Generalissimo refused to accept that he
no longer possessed the mandate of heaven. He found solace in Streams in the
Desert and guidance in Sun Ts'u's The Art of War, especially the sections on ...
Author: Jay Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044223
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 544
View: 821
Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese youth, the grand appeal of Marxism-Leninism, the terrible battle against fascist Japan, and the long, destructive civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with his father and two million Nationalists. He led the brutal suppression of dissent on the island and was a major player in the cold, sometimes hot war between Communist China and America. By reacting to changing economic, social, and political dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms on the mainland, and other international events, he led Taiwan on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's son.
Author: United States. Department of StatePublish On: 1972
General Marshall's impression however was that the Generalissimo was not
antagonistic . General Marshall stated that he discussed the communications
problem at great length and that the Generalissimo mentioned two other matters
which ...
The key passages of Hurley's report were : As early as the 8th of September the Generalissimo said to me that he was willing , for the purpose of the unification of
China , that the Communist troops should be incorporated into the National Army
...
Such stories , whether true or not , enhance the Generalissimo's personal and
political prestige in Chengtu . Two of the best informed Chinese observers with
whom I am in contact , neither of whom seems whole - heartedly in favor of the ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublish On: 1951
Without his safety valve present , Stilwell was apparently stimulated by the
obvious signs of Chinese weakness for a final joust with his old adversary , the Generalissimo . On September 19 Stilwell received a radio from President
Roosevelt for ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
The Generalissimo obviously believes that China's position has been
strengthened as a result of the Yalta Conference and the plans for the San
Francisco Conference . While friends of China welcome the recognition of the
Chinese given at ...
A courier from the generalissimo ! ” So saying , the archduke had opened the
door of his cabinet , and called the gentlemen who were in the anteroom . " A
courier from the generalissimo , ” he repeated once more , when the two generals
...
The archduke , who had not slept all the generalissimo , as I told you before ,
advanced with night long , was just returning from an inspection bis troops , and
hopes for a decisive battle within of the preparations , when a courier galloped up
to ...
MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF GENERALISSIMO TRUJILLO DATE 1944 Great
Collar of Peace Decree No . 8459 designating Generalissimo Trujillo
Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces 1952 Resolution No . 3311 authorizing
the Municipal ...
Oh ; if midst of festivity , when the generalissimo en ole passionately , as he
canght a glimpse of that ted as the most mettlesom . Arabian stoed . she could
know what had happened ! Had they tered the great hall . " horribly triumphant ...
Saying one judge “ lacks the intellectual capacity to try cases ” and that he
wanted jurists only of the “ very highest quality , ” the Generalissimo substituted
two appointments of his own . One of his picks , it turned out , had flunked out of
law ...
Author: Rudolph W. Giuliani
Publisher: Welcome Rain
ISBN: 1566491630
Category: History
Page: 428
View: 757
This is not your standard political biography. the core of this book is--incontrovertibly and inescapably--Rudy Giuliani in his own words, being himself.
The issue of the wartime relation between China and the United States was now
in the hands of the two men who controlled the foreign relations of the two
powers, the Generalissimo and the President. Many weeks had gone by since the ...
Author: United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublish On: 1947
CHAPTER XII The End of CBI Theater The issue of the wartime relation between
China and the United States was now in the hands of the two men who controlled
the foreign relations of the two powers , the Generalissimo and the President .
Author: United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Generalissimo Trujillo ' s voice was the first important one to be raised when the
threat of Communist infiltration became apparent in the Caribbean and other
Latin - American countries . At first some observers felt that he was
overemphasizing ...
told me later that it seemed to them that both the Generalissimo and Madame
Chiang maintained extraordinary calm with the enemy troops almost at the city
gates . It was not the type of tea party one would attend any day in the year . It
was the ...
Author: Hollington Kong Tong
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015008527551
Category: Journalists
Page: 269
View: 824
The beginning of China's press relations with the wind.
In order to keep the men from understanding the power of their belief , the Generalissimo stages a fake barrage with disarmed shells . The Generalissimo ,
then , must use all of his force in an attempt to defeat the belief of a single man .
However , he had to prove that to the rest of the world by immediately effecting the Generalissimo's release without obliging him to make any commitments . I
explained to him that he was too impatient and impulsive , and that many things ...
Author: United States. Department of State. Historical OfficePublish On: 1956
Such stories , whether true or not , enhance the Generalissimo's personal and
political prestige in Chengtu . Two of the best informed Chinese observers with
whom I am in contact , neither of whom seems whole - heartedly in favor of the ...
Author: United States. Department of State. Historical Office
