Laura Tyson Li in the Washington Post reviews Jay Taylor’s new book The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China. The book, released by Harvard University Press, brings a new ...

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Admirers of Taylor's long, engaging biography of the last authoritarian president of Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo, will welcome this thoughtful account of the life of Chiang's father, who governed China ...

In 1967, Morley Safer was the first American television correspondent to report from Communist China. He had snuck into the country on a tourist visa, and when he returned, he filed "Morley Safer's ...

A decades-long debate at the heart of Taiwan's identity and history is roiling once again: whether to remove hundreds of statues of former authoritarian leader Chiang Kai-shek. Taiwan inaugurated a ...

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial, in Taiwan’s capital of Taipei, honors a former Chinese president whose defeated forces retreated to the island in 1949. The generalissimo ruled the Republic of ...

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A military honor guard parade at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for ...

Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and general who led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975. His government was based in ...

A specter is haunting East Asia — at least according to Sydney’s Morning Herald. The ghost is none other than the Generalissimo of World War II and the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek. His ...