... in the aftermath of that revolution, the consolidation of power in the Republic by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang (KMT) party, the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Mao Zedong as its unchallenged leader, the brutal invasion and occupation of China by Japan, the civil war between the CCP and the KMT...

... Industrial Revolution Jiang Qing Kuomintang KMT Mao Zedong Qing Dynasty Shanghai Shaoshan China Autumn Harvest Uprising Bolshevik Party Chiang Kai Shek Chinese Communist Party communism Jiangguang Mountains Jiangxi Province China peasants Russian Revolution Soviet Union Long March China...

... Policy’ Second World War Thailand Thakins USA anti Japanese pan Asianism Aung San Ba Maw Britain Chiang Kai shek China–India interactions Chinese agents Kuomintang KMT National League for Free Burma Nationalist China Nationalist China archives Nationalists New Poor Man’s Party Pacific...

... companions. Though General Albert Wedemeyer blamed American misconduct for the crisis, he strong-armed Chiang Kai-shek into cracking down on Chinese demonstrators. The way the crisis brought tensions surrounding race, gender, and nation to the fore was a harbinger of struggles to come after Japan’s surrender...

... in China against Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s; the Viet Minh in French Indochina from 1945 to 1954; Castro's followers against Batista in Cuba from 1956 to 1959; and the mujahideen in Soviet Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989. The book illuminates patterns of failed...

... on a plane into Manchuria. It begins with a jarring experience that Americans came to describe as “The Loss of China.” The chapter recounts the high point of signing an alliance days after Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the relationship to a nadir of mutual disillusionment as Chiang Kai-shek's demoralized...

...During WWII, Chiang Kai-shek and Nehru visited each other while India and China began to think through what a post-imperialist Asia might look like. While the strengthening Indian independence movement was a concern for Britain, Chiang Kai-shek worried that the British refusal to accept India...

..., Madame Chiang Kai-shek served as a potent symbol of the humanity and assimilability of Chinese as well as the possibility that long-cherished missionary dreams for the transformation of China into a Christian, democratic nation might be realized. Dragon Lady Japan Japanese Terry and the Pirates...

.... The end of the 1958 Strait crisis did not satisfy China's yearning for unification, Chiang Kai-shek's plans to return to the mainland, or Washington's desire to end the risk of war in the area. Chiang Kai shek China People’s Republic of Eisenhower Dwight D Ike Mao Zedong Offshore islands Soviet Union...

... of minimum aid to the Koumintang (KMT or Nationalist) government of Chiang Kai-shek, on the grounds that Chiang’s regime was a lost cause and China was strategically expendable. The chapter discusses Kennan’s and Davies’s relative assessments of the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP...

.... Xu relays the effects of Chiang Kai-shek’s interest in student soldiers, bringing up Chiang’s wartime diary entries in which he advocated for the military training of students. Xu stresses that the nation-wide conscription of student soldiers during the later years of the Second Sino-Japanese War...

... that Congress remained duty-bound to protect the Constitution and its own prerogatives. ¹⁹ Events in China at the end of the 1940s could not have come at a better time for leaders on the right who sought to create a conservative alternative to containment. Mao Zedong’s victory and Chiang Kai-shek’s...

... and in the Security Council. The two are clearly moving away from their support of Chiang Kai-Shek. China Nixon’s visit Rogers William Taiwan Zhou Enlai Blood Archie China Khan Agha Mohammad Yahya Kissinger Henry Laird Melvin Pakistan India–Pakistan war refugees displaced people Vietnam War Geneva Accords...

...This chapter discusses the image and reputation of Dai Li, head of Chiang Kai-sheks' military secret service during the 1940s. It explains that as the personification of Chiang's dictatorship, Dai Li embodied one of the most powerful organizations in the Nationalist government, the Military...

... to be Blue Shirts, and its activities were often inextricably connected with covert propaganda and intelligence work conducted by Chiang Kai-shek's special services. Around this time, a peculiarly strong bond was being formed between Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li. All dropped-out Whampoa students were offered...

...This chapter focuses on the history of Chiang Kai-shek's Shanghai Station during the period from 1932 to 1935. It explains that Shanghai was always Dai Li's primary arena of secret service activity where his key missions were to oppose the Communists and to do away with dissidents who used...

... Taiwan Strait Chiang Kai shek Kuomintang Taipei Keelung Bergman Ingrid Taylor Elizabeth Neihu Qing dynasty Cheng Ch'eng Kung Ming dynasty Mucha Shen Hsueh yung Hualien Cultural Revolution Japan United Nations Weiwei Furen Democratic Progressive Party Shanghai Chinese Communists...

... Atlantic Monthly Indian National Congress Congress Party Linlithgow Lord Soviet Union Chiang Kai Shek Harriman Averill Cripps Stafford Johnson Louis Phillips William Quit India movement Asianism of Nehru Chiang Kai Shek Madame China Tagore Rabindranath United Nations Wavell Lord Burma...

... a wide range of programs, including citizenship, literacy and hygiene campaigns, and general social service. The YMCA often partnered with the Nationalist government, and Chiang Kai-shek’s New Life Movement was one product of this relationship. The association was not, however, a strong supporter...