Chiang Kai-shek
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Chiang Kai-shek
19.99 €
Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975), who led the Republic of China for nearly half a century, remains a mysterious figure to this day. His turbulent revolutionary, diplomatic, and personal life has remained largely unexplored by ostentatiously biased publications. Alexander Pantsov, a renowned sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, and author of biographies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping (ZhZL), which have received high praise both in Russia and abroad, has undertaken the first comprehensive biography of this outstanding 20th-century political and military figure.
Pantsov's new book—based on previously inaccessible materials from archives in Russia, China, Taiwan, and the United States, as well as Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries and documents from the Hoover Institution (USA), the Taiwan Academy of History, the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the CPSU Central Committee, and the CIA—reveals the phenomenon of the enigmatic leader of the Chinese Nationalists. The man who transformed China from a semi-colony into a world power, but lost the struggle for power in mainland China to Mao Zedong.
Chiang Kai-shek's detective-like diplomatic battles with the heads of the world's leading powers—Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon—and the everyday lives of the Chinese people are also of undoubted interest.
Pantsov's new book—based on previously inaccessible materials from archives in Russia, China, Taiwan, and the United States, as well as Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries and documents from the Hoover Institution (USA), the Taiwan Academy of History, the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee, the CPSU Central Committee, and the CIA—reveals the phenomenon of the enigmatic leader of the Chinese Nationalists. The man who transformed China from a semi-colony into a world power, but lost the struggle for power in mainland China to Mao Zedong.
Chiang Kai-shek's detective-like diplomatic battles with the heads of the world's leading powers—Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon—and the everyday lives of the Chinese people are also of undoubted interest.
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