Chiang Kai-Shek
Subtitle: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed edition
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: December 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780786713189
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Biography: political; Political leaders & leadership; Presidents; Chiang, Kai-shek,; China - History - 20th Century; Taiwan; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Political; Biography/Autobiography; China; Asia - China; Historical - General; Presidents & Heads of State; Biography & Autobiography / Military; Biography; 1887-1975
First sentence: IN LATE OCTOBER and early November of 1887, China suffered droughts, flooding of the Yellow River and cholera outbreaks in the cities of Nanking and Hangzhou.