Biographies: Chiang Kai-shek (China, 1887-19 )


Figure 1.--Here Chiang is at his very Western looking wedding at Shanghai's Majectic Hotel and flamked by page boys and flowe girls in 1927. His wife Mei-Ling Soong was a graduate of Wellesley and sister-in-law of Sun Yat-Sen became an effective spokeswoman for her husband in the United States.

Chiang was a Chinese general who became prominent in the Kuomintang (1923). He led the Northern Expedition to unite China (1926-28). He first cooperated with the Communists, but broke with them (1927). He married Mei-Ling Soong was a graduate of Wellesley and sister-in-law of Sun Yat-Sen became an effective spokeswoman for her husband in the United States. He dominated the Chinese Goivernment (1928-48). He led Chinese resistance after the Japanese invasion (1937). His Government was accudsed of corruption. After World War II, The Communists defeated him in the Civil War. He and his followers fled to Taiwan (1948).






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