From 1949 to the 1990s, the Kuomintang ruled the island of Taiwan, first under Chiang Kai-shek and then under his son, Chiang Ching-kuo. The Chiangs and the KMT ruled with an iron fist, which makes ...

In the summer of 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his Republic of China (ROC) government appeared doomed. Shanghai and Nanjing, then China’s... The Battle of Taiwan was intended to be the final chapter ...

Once viewed as a leader who spurred democracy, many now see Chiang Kai-shek as a symbol of authoritarianism and the Taiwan government has ordered the removal of hundreds of his statues across the ...

Taiwan was a Japanese colony before being unified with China at the end of World War II. It split away in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to the island as Mao Zedong’s Communists ...

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In the decades since Taiwan became a flourishing democracy ... having freed itself of the anti-communist dictatorship of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 2010, at a Chinese Embassy reception ...

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In 1945, at the end of World War II, Taiwan was handed over to the Republic of China under Chiang Kai-shek. Then, in 1949, communists gained control of China, established the People's Republic of ...

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