(Jiang Jieshi, 1887-1975). A military leader, trained in Russia. In 1928 Chiang Kai-shek became chairman of the GMD and head of the ROC government in Nanjing, and he remained the leader throughout the civil war. In 1949 the GMD govern-ment on the mainland collapsed; Chiang and his followers re-treated to Taiwan.
President of Republic of China 1928-1949; after defeat by the Communists, led the regime in Taiwan until death in 1975.
General and leader of the Republic of China from 1925 - 1949 who then moved his government to the island of Taiwan; given name Jiang Jieshi, 1887 - 1975.
Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)
chang kiy shek] A military officer who succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the leader of the Koumintang (Guomindung) or Nationalist Party in China in the mid-1920s; became the most powerful leader in China in the early 1930s, but his Nationalist forces were defeated and driven from China by the Com-munists after World War II. (p. 1025)
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the 1925 death of Sun Yat-sen. He led the national government of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975. He began his military education at the Baoding Military Academy, in 1906, attended the Military State Academy in Japan in 1907.