Generalissimo's Son Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan

Name: Generalissimo's Son Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan
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ISBN: 9780674002876

ISBN-10: 0674002873

ISBN-13: 9780674002876

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jay Taylor

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Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese youth, the grand appeal of…

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List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 534
Size: 6.61" wide x 9.65" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English

Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.



Notes on Romanization of Chinese Names


Abbreviations



Revolution


Upright Stone


A Teachable Son


Dreams of the Red Chamber


Socialist Man


Reunion and War


The Kannan Model


Dean and General


Manchurian Candidate


Defeat


End Game



The Island


An Unintended Consequence


Secret Wars


Family, Friends, Enemies


Managing the Great Patron


China Leaps Backward


The Minister


The Golden Cudgel


The Premier


Old Orders Passing


The Divorce


Riot and Trials


Island and Mainland


Successors, Brokers, Killers


Building Consensus


Breakthrough


A Chinese Democracy


Epilogue


Appendix: Romanization Table


Notes


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