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Definition of Chiang kai-shek

1. Noun. Chinese military and political figure; in the Chinese civil war that followed World War II he was defeated by the Chinese communists and in 1949 was forced to withdraw to Taiwan where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death (1897-1975).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiang Kai-shek

Literary usage of Chiang kai-shek

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"It should be noted, too, that had chiang kai-shek consecrated himself to the cause ... In these circumstances, chiang kai-shek had to turn elsewhere and he ..."

2. India and the United States: Estranged Democracies, 1941-1991 by Dennis Kux (1994)
"698-700, 705: Message from Chiang Kai- shek, 28 July 1942; Roosevelt to ... Roosevelt's message referred to his correspondence with Chiang Kai- shek. 81. ..."

3. Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion from the by Dorothy J. Perkins (1997)
"Chang Hsueh-liang wanted to persuade chiang kai-shek to stop fighting the ... Everyone realized that chiang kai-shek was the only figure in China who held ..."

4. American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II by General Henry H. Arnold, John W. Huston (2001)
"chiang kai-shek to Roosevelt, letter, 7 February 1943; and Arnold, Global Mission, 433-34. Unfortunately, the reader is left without any understanding by ..."

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