The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan

by Jay Taylor

Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002873
• ISBN13: 9780674002876
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"