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Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on his years of first-hand reporting across China, including insights from scholars and diplomats and analyzes of official speeches and documents, a Wall Street Journal correspondent provides a broad, lucid account of China's leader and how he inspires fear and fervor in his Party, his nation and beyond."--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's...
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