Chiang Kai Shek
Subtitle: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: December 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780786714841
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Biography: political; Political leaders & leadership; Presidents & Heads of State; China - History - 20th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; China; USA; Asia - China; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents
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.