All 3 Uses of
Chiang Kai-shek
in
Red Scarf Girl
- We had often been sorry that we were too young to have fought with Chairman Mao against the Japanese invaders, who tried to conquer China; against the dictator Chiang Kai-shek, who ruthlessly oppressed the Chinese people; and against the American aggressors in Korea.†
p. 28.6Chiang Kai-shek = Chinese military and political figure who was chased to Taiwan by the Chinese communists
- When Dad graduated from St. John's in 1949, the Communist Party had just liberated China from Chiang Kai-shek's rule, and Dad was appointed a vice-principal of a primary school.†
p. 62.2 *
- Jiang Ji-li, is your family related to Chiang Kai-shek too?†
p. 212.4
Definition:
Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975)