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10%OFFJay Taylor - The Generalissimo's Son. Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan.  - 9780674002876 - V9780674002876
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The Generalissimo's Son. Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan.

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Description for The Generalissimo's Son. Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan. Hardcover. Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a budding democracy. This book examines his role in the struggles of 20th century China as well as his integral part in Taiwan's transition from dictatorship to democracy. Num Pages: 544 pages, 20 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 3JJ; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 34. Weight in Grams: 889.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674002876
SKU
V9780674002876
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for The Generalissimo's Son. Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan.
A breakthrough in information available in English about an important and relatively little-known historical character, about U.S.-Taiwan relations from the 1950s through the 1980s, and about political dictatorship and reform in Taiwan.
Andrew J. Nathan, author of China's Transition A well-written account of an extraordinary life, narrated against the background of the world-shaking events in which Chiang Ching-kuo was ... Read more

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