The Generalissimo : : Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China / / Jay Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Jay,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Maps --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Romanization --; Prologue --; I Revolution --; 1. A Neo-Confucian Youth --; 2 The Northern Expedition and Civil War --; 3 The Nanking Decade --; II War of resistance --; 4 The Long War Begins --; 5 Chiang and His American Allies --; 6 The China Theater --; 7 Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategy --; III Civil war --; 8 Chimera of Victory --; 9 The Great Failure --; IV The island --; 10 Streams in the Desert --; 11 Managing the Protector --; 12 Shifting Dynamics --; 13 Nixon and the Last Years --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054714; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054714?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jay Taylor.

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. 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.