Biography Of Chiang Kai-Shek

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Born in 1887, Chiang Kai-shek was the innate successor to Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the Kuomintang or Guomindang. Kai-shek would become an essential constituent of Chinese history in the 1900s. (Trueman)
Chiang Kai-shek was born in the Chinese seaside province of Zhejiang. (“Chiang Kai-shek”) He was born the son of an affluent merchant of salt. (Fredriksen) However, Kai-shek was reared by his widowed mother, and with the necessary and pertinent standard Chinese instruction and education received as a child, he was able to graduate from the Baoding Military Academy. (Upshur) Kai-shek then attended a college in Japan that was fixated on the training of military officers, and Kai-shek also served in the Japanese Imperial Army for a short period of time. (Trueman) In the year 1911, while still situated in Japan, Kai-shek became a member of Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary front, which was known as the Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party. (Upshur) Later that same year, Kai-shek headed back to China to serve under the Kuomintang in the subversion of the Manchu (Qing) Dynasty. After the downfall of the Qing Dynasty, the constitution of the new Republic of China was asserted. (Fredriksen)
Approximately twelve years later in 1923, Kai-shek was directed by Sun Yat-sen to go to the Soviet Union to acquire Soviet Red Army proficiencies and techniques. (Upshur) With the reinforcement of Sun Yat-sen, Kai-shek was decreed commanding officer of the Whampoa Military Academy set up in Canton in 1924. (“Chiang Kai-shek”) In 1925, tragedy struck when the cherished and revered leader Sun Yat-sen died, and with this aforementioned disastrous death, Chiang Kai-shek was able to slip right into Yat-sen’s substantia...

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...Kuomintang and the Communists. (“Chiang Kai-shek”) The Kuomintang was steadily, yet unappeasably, defeated, and shortly afterwards in 1949, Chiang and his extant Kuomintang troops searched for recourse on the island of Taiwan. Mao Zedong then heralded the initiation of the People’s Republic of China. (Fredriksen)
For the remainder of Chiang Kai-shek’s life, he instituted and directed a government on Taiwan that was accepted by a large number of nations as the actual government of China. (“Chiang Kai-shek”) Shortly before his death, Kai-shek nominated his son his son Chiang Ching-kuo as his successor. Chiang Kai-shek died on the fifth of April 1975, but did not leave the world as a nonentity. Kai-shek left behind a legacy of Chinese unification and was a momentous source of assistance in developing China and its modernistic growth as a powerful nation. (Fredriksen)

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