Following defeat in a civil war against the Communist Party on the mainland, his Kuomintang troops fled to Taiwan in 1949 and established an interim government on the island. Chiang Kai-shek ...

50 years ago: US-backed dictator Chiang Kai-shek dies On April 5 ... The effort relied on an alliance with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Stalinist leadership in Moscow, and depended ...

CHIANG KAI-SHEK (382 pp.)—Emily Hahn—Doubleday ... and the U.S. that in the critical years following World War II the Communist-line distortions of the second picture were smearily reflected ...

The defeated Nationalist government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan in 1949, while the Chinese Communist Party under ...

In the outer world, in those days, many intellectuals excused Stalin’s methodical slaughter as a necessary first step toward a Communist ... come to terms with Chiang Kai-shek,.

The dispute between China and Taiwan dates back to 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang nationalist forces fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese civil war with Mao Zedong's communist fighters.

namely Communist conquest of Taiwan and the final defeat of Chiang Kai-shek. Taiwan was seen as a Japanese colonial conquest from China that had to be given back. However, when North Korea invaded ...

If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson moves to mainland China to develop career The great-grandson of former Taiwanese ...