Chiang Kai-shek

[ chang kahy-shek, jyahng ]

noun

1. Chiang Chung-cheng, 1886?–1975, Chinese army officer and political leader: president of the Republic of China 1950–75.

Chiang Kai-shek

/ ˈtʃæŋ kaɪˈʃɛk /

noun

1. Chiang Kai-shek18871975MChineseMILITARY: generalPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state original name Chiang Chung-cheng, 1887–1975, Chinese general: president of China (1928–31; 1943–49) and of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1950–75). As chairman of the Kuomintang, he allied with the Communists against the Japanese (1937–45), but in the Civil War that followed was forced to withdraw to Taiwan after his defeat by the Communists (1949)

Chiang Kai-shek

1. A Chinese general and political leader of the twentieth century. He was president of China until he was overthrown in 1949 by Chinese communist forces under Mao Zedong , who established the People's Republic of China . Chiang fled to Taiwan , where he established the government of the Republic of China , or Nationalist China (see also Nationalist China ), recognized by the United States until 1979 as the only legitimate government of China.

Example Sentences

A barricade erected around debris in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall compound.

From New York Times

Taiwan and China have been ruled separately since 1949, when the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the island after losing a civil war on the mainland to Mao Zedong’s communist forces.

From Seattle Times

Opinion leaders were asking whether China would ever have a leader like Chiang Ching-kuo, the Taiwanese president who gradually shifted away from the dictatorial rule of his father, Chiang Kai-shek, in the 1980s.

From New York Times

The Chinese Nationalist Party under Chiang Kai-shek moved the government to Taiwan in 1949 following the takeover of mainland China by the Communist Party under Mao Zedong following a yearslong bloody civil war.

From Seattle Times

Taiwan’s nationalist party is looking to the purported great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek to refurbish its image.

From Los Angeles Times