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Informationen zum Autor Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) was a political and military leader of twentieth-century China, becoming head of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT) in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. In 1946, after American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Nationalists failed, the Chinese Civil War resumed. The CPC defeated the Nationalists in 1949, forcing Chiang's government to retreat to Taiwan, where Chiang ruled the island as the self-appointed President of the Republic of China and Director-General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975. Klappentext Chiang's classic work, first published in 1947, examines the challenges facing the modernization of China - from the humiliation of the unequal treaties, through to the struggles of the first half of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Secret of China's Destiny; I Growth and development of the Chinese Nation; II The Origins of national Humiliation and Sources of the Revolution; III The Deepening Effects of the Unequal Treaties; IV From the Northern Expedition to the War of Resistance; V Contents of the New Equal Treaties and the Essentials of the Future Work of National Reconstruction; VI Fundamental problems of Revolutionary National Reconstruction; VII The Artery of China's Revolutionary Reconstruction and the Critical Questions Determining Her Destiny; Chinese Economic Theory; Guide to the Pronunciation of Chinese Names; Chronology of Chinese Dynasties; Index
