Chiang Kai-shek
Military Commander
1887 – 1975
Who was Chiang Kai-shek?
Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. He is known as Jiang Jieshi or Jiang Zhongzheng in Standard Chinese. Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's nominal leader. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1948. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, consolidating power from the party's former regional warlords. Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun embraced in favour of an authoritarian government.
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- Born
- Oct 31, 1887
Xikou - Also known as
- Jiang Jieshi
- 蔣介石
- Jiang Zhongzheng
- 蔣中正
- "Generalissimo"
- "Red General"
- Chancre Jack
- Chung-Cheng Chiang
- Jie-Shi Jiang
- General Chaing Kai-Shek
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mao Fumei
(1901 - 1921) - Yao Yecheng
(1912 - 1927) - Chen Jieru
(1921/12 - 1927) - Soong May-ling
(1927/12/01 - 1975/04/05)
- Mao Fumei
- Children
- Religion
- Christianity
- Methodism
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Imperial Japanese Army Academy
(1907 - 1911) - Baoding Military Academy
(1906 - )
- Imperial Japanese Army Academy
- Lived in
- Zhejiang
- Ningbo
- Died
- Apr 5, 1975
Taipei
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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