Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was the President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and the head of the Nationalist government from 1925 to
Chiang (right) with his mother, Wang Tsai-yu (middle), who holds his son, Chiang Ching-kuo. Chiang's then-wife, Mao Fumei, is seated left (1910)
Chiang in 1907, a student at the Baoding Military Academy
Chiang (top left) with other Chinese classmates in Japan, 1910
Chiang in 1911, an artillery officer in the Imperial Japanese Army
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the government of the Republic of China, led by the Kuomintang, and the Chinese Communist Party. Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 unt
Chiang Kai-shek
…the Republic of China (ROC), he ruled the country through World War II and oversaw the relocation of its government to Taiwan following defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Born in Zhejiang, Chiang received a military education in China and Japan, joined Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui in 1908, and, after the 1911 Revolution…
Su Yu at Meng Liang Gu Battle 1947
1945 Chiang Kai shek inspected Chinese soldiers with shoes made of straw