Who Lost China? Chiang Kai-shek Testifies Author(s): Lloyd E. Eastman Reviewed work(s): Source: The China Quarterly‚ No. 88 (Dec.‚ 1981)‚ pp. 658-668 Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of the School of Oriental and African Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/653752 . Accessed: 20/04/2012 05:29 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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The long anticipated attack launched by the People’s Liberation Army‚ the military division of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)‚ on January 6‚ 1949 was the start of a five month offensive that culminated in Chiang Kai-shek’s departure to Taiwan. After much self-reflection‚ Chiang privately concluded that “the major reason for this defeat…is that we are in a transitional period where the old system has been abolished but the new system is yet to be built” (400). The Generalissimo also recognized
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Vanna Qing Exam-History Essay#2 March 3rd Monday Ms. Macaulay Explain the struggle between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek to lead a new Chinese state in the 1920s In the 1920s‚ Mao Zedong was an organizer of Communist Party‚ and Chiang Kai-shek was the second leader of the Nationalists. The Nationalist and Communist Parties had struggled for a long time to seize the central power to lead a new China. They tried to work together and formed an alliance to drive the imperialists and colonialism
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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was born in Chaochan in Hunan province in 1893. He is considered to be the father of Communist China and along side Sun Yat sen and Chiang Kai Shek played a fundamental part in China’s recent history. He came from a peasant family. His education was hard and he experienced no luxuries same with all the peasants that living in 19th century China. He first became a Marxist while he worked as a library assistant at Peking University. In June 1921‚ he co-founded the Chinese
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Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung Pronounced As: mou dzu-doong ‚ 1893-1976‚ founder of the People’s Republic of China. One of the most prominent Communist theoreticians‚ Mao’s ideas on revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare were extremely influential‚ especially among Third World revolutionaries. Of Hunanese peasant stock‚ Mao was trained in Chinese classics and later received a modern education. As a young man he observed oppressive social conditions‚ becoming one of the original members of the
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Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward‚ Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China is today. Most of Mao’s major successes have been in the CCP’s rise to power‚ while Mao’s failures have come at a time when the CCP was in power. <br><br>Mao Zedong was born on December 26‚ 1893 is Shaoshan
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Chiang Kai-shek‚ a disciplined man of high virtue was a Chinese military leader who was the front man that led the Chinese in World War II and battled Mao Zedong and his communist forces with his party the Kuomintang (the Nationalists). As an influential member of the Kuomintang and close alley of Sun Yat-sen‚ the first president of the Republic of China and founder of the Kuomintang party‚ he sought out to mainly expel Chinese communists and regain unification in China‚ Chiang Kai-shek took over
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Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He started the Great Leap Forward movement in China. Most of his goals‚ however‚ never worked out greatly for China. Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan‚ China on December 26‚ 1893. The country was in a very difficult time and life was hard for most people. Mao’s family lived better than most of China’s population and had three acres of farmland that they had kept for many generations. When Mao was 8 years old‚ he started going
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CPC continued supporting the Wuhan KMT government‚ a position Mao initially supported‚ [85] but he had changed his mind by the time of the CPC’s Fifth Congress‚ deciding to stake all hope on the peasant militia. [87] The question was rendered moot when the Wuhan government expelled all communists from the KMT on 15 July. [87] The CMT founded the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army of China‚ better known as the "Red Army"‚ to battle Chiang. A battalion led by General Zhu De was ordered to take the city
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Leadership of Mao Zedong RXE Chen Qianqian 3011521 November 4‚ 2010 Content Abstract …………………………………………3 Introduction………………………………………4 Biography Family ……………………………………5 Education – Self-study……………………5 Revolutionary road Into the party’s central power………6 Conquest Kuomintang………………7 Rebuild China………………………8 Leadership
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