The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China [Audiobook] download free by Jay Taylor
- Listen audiobook: The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China
- Author: Jay Taylor
- Release date: 2011/9/23
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780674060494
- Rating: 9.55 of 10
- Votes: 283
- Review by: Nayeli Salley
- Review rating: 9.23 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/13
- Duration: 9H16M3S in 256 kbps (150.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, TTA, FLAC, Shorten, MP3, WAV, MOD, MPEG4 (compression 7-ZIP, ZIP, LZMA, TBZ, CBZ, RAR, ARC)
- Total pages original book: 752
- Includes a PDF summary of 61 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 46M50S (12.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang 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-his archrival for leadership of China-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. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan's evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization.Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang's diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang's life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Asian History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Political Leaders & Leadership
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 33.95 USD
- Dimensions: 162x235x33.02mm
- Weight: 975.22g
- Printed by: The Belknap Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
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