The GeneralissimoOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. |
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معاينة المستخدمين - xuebi - LibraryThingChiang Kai-Shek (also Jiang Jieshi) was one of the most polarising Chinese figures of the twentieth century, equally celebrated as the victor over the Japanese and reviled as the man who lost the ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
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معاينة المستخدمين - kerns222 - LibraryThingThe author works hard to show that Chiang's personal honor, almost ascetic life and cunning intelligence absolve him from the horrors of leading civil war. At least, Chiang did not kill a whole social ... قراءة التقييم بأكمله
المحتويات
Prologue | 1 |
I Revolution | 5 |
II War of Resistance | 139 |
III Civil War | 337 |
IV The Island | 409 |
Epilogue | 589 |
Notes | 597 |
| 699 | |
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معلومات المراجع
| العنوان | The Generalissimo |
| المؤلف | Jay Taylor |
| الإصدار | مزود بصور توضيحية, معاد طباعته |
| الناشر | Harvard University Press, 2009 |
| رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب) | 0674033388, 9780674033382 |
| عدد الصفحات | 722 من الصفحات |
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