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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.
Chiang Kai-shek. 蔣介石 1926–1975: Military leader of the Kuomintang and later President of the ROC until his death He Yingqin. 何應欽 1926–1950: Senior General in the Kuomintang. Known as the "Lucky General". Hu Hanmin. 胡漢民 1925–1936: Leader of the right wing faction of the Kuomintang Liao Zhongkai. 廖仲愷 1923–1925
The United Bamboo Gang (UBG; Chinese: 竹聯幫; pinyin: Zhúliánbāng), also known as the Bamboo Union, is the largest of Taiwan's three main criminal Triads. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are reported to have roughly 20,000 members.
It was led by the brothers Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, sword nephews of Chiang Kai-shek. Chen Lifu and his older brother Chen Guofu were nephews of Chen Qimei, who until his assassination by the Chinese warlord Yuan Shikai in 1916 was the mentor of upcoming Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. The Chen brothers established the CC clique within the ...
After the victory over Japan in 1945 the portrait of Sun Yat-sen was replaced with a portrait of the leader of the Republic, Chiang Kai-shek. Continuing to commemorate the Second Sino-Japanese War in July 1949 after the Pingjin campaign , which saw the peaceful seizure of Beijing (and Tianjin ) by the People's Liberation Army , portraits of Zhu ...
After the failure of the fourth encirclement campaign in the spring of 1933, Chiang Kai-shek immediately mobilized troops for the next campaign. Nationalist troops eventually totaled more than one million, mostly forces under various regional warlords, of which the largest part were men from the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang's army of 300,000+ (or 30% of the total nationalist force).
Taiwan's nationalist party is looking to the purported great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek to refurbish its image. Looking for a boost, Taiwan's oldest political party turns to the great-grandson of ...
The KMT kept the island under martial law for 38 years under rule by Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (1910–1988). As the original leadership died off, it made a peaceful transition to democracy, with full election of parliament in the early 1990s and first direct presidential election in 1996.