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- The crackdown on pro-democracy protests in the southern city that year is seen as a watershed for the movement and a seminal event in Taiwan's post-war history. It led to Chiang lifting bans on forming new political parties and media organisations in 1986 and declaring an end to nearly four decades of martial law the following year.
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Chiang Ching-kuo (born March 18, 1910, Fenghua, Zhejiang province, China—died Jan. 13, 1988, Taipei, Taiwan) was the son of Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), and his successor as leader of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as commissioner of Gannan Prefecture ( 贛南) between 1939 and 1945; there he banned smoking, gambling and prostitution, studied governmental management, allowed for economic expansion and a change in social outlook.
Jan 7, 2018 · Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) ruled Taiwan under martial law with an iron fist for three decades, but by the time Chiang Ching-kuo took over in 1978, he faced a vastly different political landscape.
Jul 13, 2017 · Thirty years ago on 15 July, 1987, the president of Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek, announced the end of the ‘Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of National Mobilisation for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion’.
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In 1937, after spending 12 years in the former Soviet Union, Chiang returned to China. Stalin decided to release him because the KMT under his father's leadership had just agreed to a second united front with the CCP in order to fight against the Japanese aggression. Upon return, Chiang spent one year in Fenghua with his mother (who was later kille...
In 1975 President Chiang Kai-shek died. As the political strong-man in Taiwan, Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded his father as KMT party chairman, and, following the presidency of C. K. Yen (who had been Chiang Kai-shek's vice-president and became his immediate successor upon his death), was elected in his own right to be president of the Republic of Chin...
There is no English-language publication on Chiang. The most reliable Chinese publication is Chiang Nan, Chiang Ching-kuo chuan(A Biography of Chiang Ching-kuo) (1985).
Newsweek,January 25, 1988. The Economist,January 16, 1988. Time,June 1, 1987; July 27, 1987. Forbes,August 11, 1986. □
Jan 14, 1988 · Jan. 14, 1988 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Taiwan’s President Chiang Ching-kuo, who ruled during a turbulent period in which the island suffered increasing diplomatic isolation but also...
Jan 22, 2022 · It led to Chiang lifting bans on forming new political parties and media organisations in 1986 and declaring an end to nearly four decades of martial law the following year. Strained relations...
