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Generalissimo : Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby (Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFree Press

ISBN-100743231449

ISBN-139780743231442

eBay Product ID (ePID)45697305

Product Key Features

Book TitleGeneralissimo : Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost

Number of Pages736 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, Asia / China, Political

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJonathan Fenby

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.6 in

Item Weight32.5 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2004-444491

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal951.04092

SynopsisFollowing his acclaimed studies of the state of modern France and how Hong Kong has changed since the 1997 handover, Jonathan Fenby now turns his attention to one of the most interesting yet under-reported figures of twentieth-century history. Chiang Kai-shek was the man who lost China to the Communists. As leader of the nationalist movement, the Kuomintang, Chiang established himself as head of the government in Nanking in 1928. Yet although he laid claim to power throughout the 1930s and was the only Chinese figure of sufficient stature to attend a conference with Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War, his desire for unity was always thwarted by threats on two fronts. Between them, the Japanese and the Communists succeeded in undermining Chiang's power-plays, and after Hiroshima it was Mao Zedong who ended up victorious. Brilliantly re-creating pre-Communist China in all its colour, danger and complexity, Jonathan Fenby's magisterial survey of this brave but unfulfilled life is destined to become the definitive account in the English language.

LC Classification NumberDS777.488.C5