02467cam a2200385 a 450000100070000000500170000700800410002403500130006501000170007802000390009503500240013404000840015804300210024205000310026308200160029410000240031024500900033424600540042426000740047830000540055250400660060650504020067252005810107460000340165565000340168965000350172365100410175865100270179965000320182665100340185865100300189265000380192265000380196085600830199811268220230410103833.0080912s2009    mauabe   b    001 0beng    a15448517  a  2008040492  a9780674033382 (cloth : alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocn252922333  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdYDXCPdC#PdBWXdUABdCDXdSGBdPAUdIAKdVP@dNLGGCdCQUdDLC  aa-cc---aa-ch---14a408 DS 777.488bC532T 200900a951.04/20921 aTaylor, Jay,d1931-14aThe generalissimo :bChiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China /cJay Taylor.30aChiang Kai-shek and the struggle for modern China  aCambridge, Mass. :bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,c2009.  axii, 722 p. :bill., maps, ports., plan ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [597]-698) and index.0 aRevolution.  A neo-Confucian youth ; The northern expedition and civil war ; The Nanking decade -- War of resistance.  The Long War begins ; Chiang and his American allies ; The China theater ; Yalta, Manchuria, and postwar strategy -- Civil war.  Chimera of victory ; The great failure -- The island.  Streams in the desert ; Managing the protector ; Shifting dynamics ; Nixon and the last years.  aChiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression.  In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong, he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his "white terror," controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. --from publisher description10aChiang, Kai-shek,d1887-1975. 0aPresidentszChinavBiography. 0aPresidentszTaiwanvBiography. 0aChinaxHistoryyRepublic, 1912-1949. 0aTaiwanxHistoryy1945-14aChiang Kai-Shek, 1887-1975. 4aChinaxPolítica y gobierno. 4aChinaxHistoriaySiglo XX 4aPolíticos chinosvBiografías. 4aPresidenteszChinavBiografías.413Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0828/2008040492.html