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Article: Chiang Kai Shek.
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- Business Asia
- Article date:
- June 15, 1998
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Generalissimo's genesis
"My spirit will always be with my colleagues and my countrymen to recover the mainland and to restore our national culture," Chiang Kai Shek.
Portrayals of Chiang Kai Shek evoke two strong, very different, personalities. To his detractors, he was the leader whose faults lost mainland China to the Mao led Communists in 1949. To his supporters, Chiang was a hero who inspired Taiwan's economic success.
Each portrayal has some merit because Chiang lived two lives. The first was as a soldier turned dictator who ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949. The second as the exile who was president of Taiwan from 1950 until his ...