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Sun Yat-sen (seated) and Chiang Kai-shek. Sun was now convinced that the only hope for a unified China lay in a military conquest from his base in the south, followed by a period of political tutelage , which would culminate in the transition to democracy.
Born in Zhejiang, Chiang was a member of the Kuomintang, and a lieutenant of Sun Yat-sen in the revolution to overthrow the Beiyang government and reunify China. After the Soviet -led Comintern re-organized the Nationalist and Chinese Communist Party, he headed the Whampoa Military Academy.
- Chiang Kai-shek’s Early Life and Career
- Chiang Kai-Shek: Internal and External Conflict in China
- Chiang Kai-Shek: Civil War and Government in Exile
Born in the coastal province of Chekiang on October 31, 1887, Chiang ran away from home after his father died and joined the provincial army. He received formal military training at the Paoting Military Academy in northern China, and later in Japan. When uprisings against the ruling Qing (Manchu) dynasty broke out in China in 1911, Chiang returned ...
Chiang sought to institute a modest program of reforms, including financial and educational reforms, infrastructure improvements and a revival of Confucianism, supported by the “New Life Movement” campaign. The bulk of his government’s energies and resources, however, were focused on threats to its own stability from within and outside of China. Th...
In 1946, a year after Japan’s surrender, civil war broke out in China between KMT and Communist forces. With the Communist victory in mainland China in 1949, Mao declared the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Upon his defeat, Chiang fled with the remnants of his Nationalist government to Taiwan, which had been turned over to the Nati...
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May 19, 2024 · Shortly after Sun Yat-sen had begun to reorganize the Nationalist Party along Soviet lines, Chiang visited the Soviet Union in 1923 to study Soviet institutions, especially the Red Army. Back in China after four months, he became commandant of a military academy, established on the Soviet model, at Whampoa , near Guangzhou .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Chiang became a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (known as the Kuomintang or KMT), founded by Sun Yat-sen. Supported by Sun Yat-sen, Chiang was appointed commandant of the...
Apr 10, 2024 · Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party, known as the father of modern China. Influential in overthrowing the Qing dynasty (1911/12), he served as the first provisional president of the Republic of China (1911–12) and later as de facto ruler (1923–25).
A year later, in 1925, the founder of the Nationalist party Sun Yat-sen passed away and Chiang was in a strong position to assume leadership. Chiang hoped to fulfil Sun’s dream of a united China in what would become known as the Northern Expedition.
