In March 1926, Chiang Kai-shek used confusion inside the Kuomintang to crush rivals and seize real power. A suspected coup, a ...

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Unwanted for public spaces elsewhere in Taiwan, some 200 statues of the late autocratic leader Chiang Kai-shek stand in the quiet sanctuary of a park surrounding his ...

Chiang Kai-shek (also known as Jiang Jieshi) was born on 31 October 1887 in Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province of China. His father was a merchant. At the age of 18 he went to military training ...

Reporting from TAIPEI, Taiwan — Across Taiwan, his image and name are everywhere — on statues and street signs and at a lavish memorial hall in the capital. Chiang Kai-shek was long heralded as a ...

(Bloomberg) -- Chiang Kai-shek’s great-grandson declared victory in the race to be mayor of Taiwan’s capital, as the ruling party suffered a resounding defeat in island-wide local elections a little ...

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BEIJING – Photos of Mao's archenemy Chiang Kai-shek adorn the walls of a Beijing restaurant, and his face looks up at diners from the menu. Online, the deposed Chinese leader's image is used to sell ...

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, a pivotal figure in one of the 20th Century’s great epics–the struggle for control of postimperial China–died Thursday in New York, Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry reported early ...

DASI, Taiwan - The two black marble sarcophagi sit in similar mausoleums less than a mile apart, each a one-story building of house size arranged around a tiny, grassy courtyard in a wooded valley an ...

The latest news and top stories on Chiang Kai-shek, a Chinese nationalist politician and military leader. He served as the leader of the Republic of China from 1928 to 1975. As head of the Kuomintang, ...