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a| 9780674033382 (cloth : alk. paper)
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a| The generalissimo :
b| Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China /
c| Jay Taylor.
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a| Chiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China.
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a| Cambridge, Mass. :
b| Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
c| 2009.
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a| xii, 722 p. :
b| ill., maps, ports., plan ;
c| 24 cm.
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a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-698) and index.
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a| 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 Zedong, he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five 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. --from publisher description.
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a| "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. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, 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 Zedong - his archrival for leadership of China - he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five 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 Taiwan's evolution into a Chinese model of democratic modernization." "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 surpassed 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 Chiang's life, Taylor provides insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan."--BOOK JACKET.
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a| Chiang, Kai-shek,
d| 1887-1975.
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a| Presidents
z| China
v| Biography.
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a| Presidents
z| Taiwan
v| Biography.
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a| China
x| History
y| Republic, 1912-1949.
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x| History
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t| List of Maps
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t| Note on Romanization
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t| Prologue
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l| I
t| Revolution
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t| A Neo-Confucian Youth
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t| The Northern Expedition and Civil War
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t| The Nanking Decade
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l| II
t| War of Resistance
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t| The Long War Begins
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t| Chiang and His American Allies
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t| The China Theater
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t| Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategy
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l| III
t| Civil War
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t| Chimera of Victory
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t| The Great Failure
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l| IV
t| The Island
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t| Streams in the Desert
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t| Managing the Protector
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t| Shifting Dynamics
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t| Nixon and the Last Years
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