Wang Sheng (general)
Wang Sheng( October 15, 1915 – October 5, 2006) was a general in the Republic of China Army from 1970, head of the General Political Warfare Department( 總政治作戰部), and a close confidant to President Chiang Ching- kuo.
As the Director of the General Political Warfare Department, which was responsible for secret military and intelligence operations from 1975- 1983; Wang was the second most powerful person in Taiwan after President Chiang Ching- kuo as he led the" Liu Shaokang Office"( 劉少康辦公室) which was described as the inner court of the Kuomintang party headquarters, and he was rumoured to be the successor to Chiang.
Mao Fumei
Mao Fumei (9 November 1882 – 12 December 1939) was the first wife of Chiang Kai-shek, and the biological mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo.
Mao was born in Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and, like most women of the era, she was illiterate.
She married Chiang Kai-shek in an arranged marriage in 1901.
When Chiang came back from Japan he divorced her in 1921.
She was killed in 1939 in a Japanese air raid on the in Xikou.
Chiang Fang-liang
Faina Chiang Fang-liang( 15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching- kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Chang Ya-juo
Chang Ya- jo( 1913–1942; sometimes romanized as" Chang Ya- juo" or" Chang Yaruo") was the mistress of Chiang Ching- kuo and bore twin sons for him, John Chiang and Winston Chang in 1942.
She met Chiang when she was working at a training camp for enlistees in the fight against Japan while he was serving as the head of Gannan Prefecture.
The twins were born out of wedlock in Guilin, China, and took their mother's surname.
Chang Ya- jo died in August 1942 when they were approximately six months old, under mysterious circumstances; after dining at a friend's house, she came home complaining of stomach cramps.
She was admitted to the hospital and died the next day.
After their mother's death, the twins were raised by Chang's brother and sister- in- law, Chang Hau- juo and Chi Chen, respectively, who were officially listed as their parents.
They escaped to Taiwan with their uncle and aunt in 1949 and settled near Hsinchu.
After a legal process that included obtaining written declarations from Chi's sons, documents attesting to the father- sons relationship between Chiang Ching- kuo and the twins from retired general Wang Sheng, the birth certificate listing Chang Ya- juo as his mother and DNA testing to prove that Chi was not his birth mother, John Chiang was able to obtain a new ID card listing Chiang Ching- kuo and Chang Ya- juo as his biological parents in December 2002.
John Chiang officially changed his surname to Chiang in March 2005.
In 2006, Chiang stated he knew the identity of his mother's murderer, to be revealed as one of Chiang Ching- kuo's aides in his forthcoming memoirs, but that Chiang Ching- kuo had not ordered the murder and was not aware it was to take place.
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China.
The eldest and only biological son of former president Chiang Kai-shek, he held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China.
He served as Premier of the Republic of China between 1972–78 and was the President of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988.
Chiang Ching-kuo was sent as a teenager to study in the Soviet Union during the First United Front in 1925, when his father's Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party were in alliance.
He attended university there, but when the Chinese Nationalists violently broke with the Communists, Stalin sent him to work in a steel factory in the Ural Mountains.
There he met and married Faina Vakhreva.
When war between China and Japan was imminent in 1937, Stalin sent the couple to China.
During the war his father gradually came to trust Ching-kuo and gave him more and more responsibilities, including administration.
After the Japanese surrender, Chiang-kuo was given the job of ridding Shanghai of corruption, which he attacked with ruthless efficiency.
The victory of the Communists in 1949 drove the Chiangs and their government to Taiwan.
Chiang Ching-kuo was first given control of the secret police, a position he retained until 1965 and in which he used arbitrary arrests and torture to ensure tight control.
He then became Minister of Defense 1965-1969, Vice-Premier, 1972-78, Premier, 1972-78.
After his father's death in 1976 he took leadership of the Nationalist Party as Chairman, and was elected President of the Republic in 1978.
Under his tenure, the government of the Republic of China, while authoritarian, became more open and tolerant of political dissent.
Chiang courted Taiwanese voters and reduced the preference for those who had come from the mainland after the war.
Towards the end of his life, Chiang relaxed government controls on the media and speech and allowed Taiwanese Han into positions of power, including his successor Lee Teng-hui.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949
and then in Taiwan until his death.
Born in Chekiang Province, Chiang was a member of the Kuomintang and a lieutenant of Sun Yat-sen in the revolution to overthrow the Beiyang government and reunify China.
With Soviet and communist (CCP) help, Chiang organized the military for Sun's Canton Nationalist Government and headed the Whampoa Military Academy.
Commander in chief of the National Revolutionary Army (from which he came to be known as Generalissimo), he led the Northern Expedition from 1926 to 1928, before defeating a coalition of warlords and nominally reunifying China under a new Nationalist government.
Midway through the campaign, the KMT–CPC alliance broke down and Chiang purged the communists inside the party, triggering a civil war with the CCP, which he eventually lost in 1949.
As leader of the Republic of China in the Nanjing decade, Chiang sought to strike a difficult balance between the modernizing China while also devoting resources to defending the nation against the impending Japanese threat.
Trying to avoid a war with Japan while hostilities with CCP continued, he was kidnapped in the Xi'an Incident and obliged to form an Anti-Japanese United Front with the CCP.
Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, he mobilized China for the Second Sino-Japanese War.
For eight years he led the war of resistance against a vastly superior enemy, mostly from the wartime capital Chongqing.
As the leader of a major Allied power, Chiang met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Cairo Conference to discuss terms for Japanese surrender.
No sooner had the Second World War ended than the Civil War with the communists, by then led by Mao Zedong, resumed.
Under Chiang's command, the nationalists were mostly defeated in a few decisive battles in 1948.
In 1949 Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics during the White Terror.
Presiding over a period of social reforms and economic prosperity, Chiang won five elections to six-year terms as President of the Republic of China and was Director-General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975, three years into his fifth term as President and just one year before Mao's death.
One of the longest-serving non-royal head of states in the 20th century
, Chiang was the longest-serving non-royal ruler of China having held the post for 46 years.
Like Mao, he is regarded as a controversial figure.
Supporters credit him with playing a major part in unifying the nation and leading the Chinese resistance against Japan, as well as with countering Soviet-communist encroachment.
Detractors and critics denounce him as a dictator at the front of an authoritarian regime who suppressed opponents.
Chiang Hsiao-chang
Chiang Hsiao- chang( born 1938) is the only daughter of Chiang Ching- kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Her mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang- liang.
She had one older brother, Hsiao- wen, and two younger brothers, Hsiao- wu and Hsiao- yung.
She is the only living member of Chiang Ching- kuo's legitimate children, and was the only one among the siblings who could converse in Russian with their mother.
She also has twin half- brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom she shares the same father.
She attended Mills College and was featured in LIFE during her college years.
She was married to Yu Yang- ho until his death in 2010; he was the son of former Taiwan defense minister Yu Ta- wei.
She and Yu have one son, Theodore Yu Tsu- sheng.
Chiang Wan-an
Wayne Chiang or Chiang Wan- an; born 26 December 1978, formerly surnamed Chang, is a Taiwanese politician.
He is the son of John Chiang and a grandson of Chiang Ching- kuo.
Chiang Wan- an worked as a business lawyer in the United States prior to beginning a political career in Taiwan.
Cheng Tzu-tsai
Cheng Tzu-tsai( born on 1 December 1936; also known as TT Deh) is a Taiwan- born architect and dissident who conspired with others in the of Chiang Ching- kuo, the son of Chiang Kai- shek, in New York City.
Chiang Hsiao-wu
Chiang Hsiao-wu (also known as Alex Chiang; April 25, 1945 - July 1, 1991) was the second son of Chiang Ching-kuo, the President of the Republic of China in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
His mother is Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang.
He had one older brother, Hsiao-wen, one older sister, Hsiao-chang, and one younger brother, Hsiao-yung.
He also had two half-brothers, Winston Chang and John Chiang, with whom he shared the same father.
He was president of the state-run Broadcasting Corporation of China from 1980 to 1986, and later headed the Republic of China mission to Singapore for two years, starting in April 1986 as the deputy trade representative before being transferred to the mission to Japan in 1990.
In a December 1985 speech, Hsiao-wu's father Chiang Ching-kuo declared ″If someone asks me whether anyone in my family would run for the next presidential term, my reply is, ′It can't be and
it won't be.′″ Prior to the speech, Chiang Hsiao-wu was the only one of Chiang Ching-kuo's sons mentioned as a potential successor.
He died at the age of 46, on July 1, 1991, at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan as a result of congestive heart failure brought on by chronic inflammation of the pancreas.
He was survived by his wife and two children.

Question: When did Chiang Ching-Kuo's father die?
Answer: 5 April 1975