Chiang Kai Shek, Jiangsu Yixing.

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Chiang Kai Shek, born on 31-10-1987 in Chejiang, Chiang Wan-an was not born in that dynasty. He originally had the surname Chang, after his father and grandmother. It wasn’t until he was 16 that he learned that his father was President Chiang Ching-kuo’s illegitimate son, which was considered an open secret in political circles, but has never been officially acknowledged. At the age of 27, he had his last name changed, just like his father, who became deputy prime minister. As a KMT politician, blood relationship with the Chiangs is worth its weight in gold.
Chiang took an active part in the Xinhai Revolution, which unfolded in two stages: China became a constitutional monarchy in 1911 and a republic in 1912. Sun Yat-sen became the first president, but soon had to relinquish this office to the last prime minister of the Qing dynasty, General Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai proved unable to lead the country vigorously, and soon after taking office, China fell apart into various smaller and larger areas under the leadership of warlords. These were former generals and officers in the service of the emperor or sometimes rebellious revolutionaries. Yuan died in 1916. His successors also turned out to be weak leaders.
After Sun’s death in 1925, Chiang’s influence in the Kuomintang increased. The left wing of the party saw Wang Jingwei as the leader, but Chiang managed to neutralize this threat in 1928. Chiang became commander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies and led – still with Communist support – the Northern Campaign. The campaign was a great success and most of the northern warlords surrendered or made pacts with Chiang and the Nationalists. In 1928, Chiang became chairman of the nationalist government in Nanjing (the provisional capital of the Republic of China (1928-1949)) and chairman of the KMT. That same year he broke the coalition with the communists and started a witch hunt against them. After his divorce from Mao Fumei   in 1927, Chiang remarried Soong Mei-ling, who came from a Methodist Christian family and was the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, the widow of Sun Yat-sen. In 1930, Chiang also became a Methodist Christian. Soong Mei-ling, the youngest of the three Song sisters, died 23-10-2003 (old age 105) in Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA. She herself was a politician and painter. In China, she was known as “one who loved power.”
Mao Fumei, 09-11-1882 the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, the first, second, third, and fourth presidents of the Republic of China. She is the mother of Jiang Jingguo or Chiang Ching-kuo, the sixth and seventh president of Taiwan. She married Chiang Kai-shek, five years her junior, in the winter of 1901 at the age of nineteen, but they divorced in 1927. Their arranged marriage was not really full of love. The Japanese wanted to negotiate peace talks with Chiang in 1939 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Chiang refused and in reprisal Chiang’s jiaxiang was bombed. Mao Fumei was in Fenghua at the time and was killed in the bombing on 12-12-1939, age 57.
Jiangsu Chiang Kai Shek became the political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of the nationalist party Kuomintang and Sun Yat-sen’s close ally. He became the Commandant of Kuomintang’s Whampoa Military Academy
and took Sun’s place in the party when the latter died in 1925. With the attack on Pearl Harbor and the opening of the Pacific War, China became one of the Allied Powers. During and after World War II, Chiang and his American-educated wife Soong May-ling, known in the United States as “Madame Chiang”, she died age 105, in 2003, held the support of the United States China Lobby which saw in them the hope of a Christian and democratic China. Chiang was even named the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in the China war zone. He was created a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath by King George VI of the United Kingdom in 1942. Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill met at the Cairo Conference in 1943 during World War II and the China-Burma-India Theater adviser General, nicknamed “Uncle Joe” or “Vinegar Joe.”, Joseph Stilwell
  After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Chiang attempted to eradicate the Communists. Ultimately, with support from the Soviet Union, the CPC defeated the Nationalists, forcing the Nationalist government to retreat to Taiwan, where martial law was continued while the government still tried to take back mainland China. Chiang ruled the island with an iron fist as the President of the Republic of China and Director-General of the Kuomintang. Feelings towards Chiang are mixed in Taiwan. While some still view him as a hero, others consider him with disdain; subsequently, hundreds of Chiang’s statues have been dismantled across the island.

Death and burial ground of Chiang Kai Shek, Jiangsu Yixing.

Chiang Kai Shek died at the old age of 87, on 05-04-1975 and is buried in the tombe in Cihu Presidential Burial Place in Taiwan.
     

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