Madame chiang kai-shek biography

Chinese politician and military leader (1887–1975)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chiang.

Chiang Kai-shek^[a] (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and military commander who was the leader of the Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party and commander-in-chief and Generalissimo of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) from 1926, and leader of the Republic of China (ROC) in mainland China from 1928.

After Chiang was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, he continued to lead the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan until his death in 1975.

Madame chiang kai-shek biography

He was considered the legitimate head of China by the United Nations until 1971.

Born in Zhejiang, Chiang received a military education in China and Japan and joined Sun Yat-sen's Tongmenghui revolutionary organization in 1908.

After the 1911 Revolution, he was a founding member of the KMT, becoming one of Sun's c