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Jiang Jieshi
Soldier and statesman from Fenghua who headed the Whampoa Military Academy, led the Northern Expedition and the war against Japan, and later governed the Republic of China in Taiwan
In the courtyard of a district government hall, a line of petitioners waits before a raised bench with a long table and document boxes; a blue umbrella stands beside it, a large drum stands at the gate where a few people wait, and a lake with sailboats lies beyond.
Also known as Ming Zhongzheng · Zi Jieshi
- Roles
- Statesman / Official
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), personal name Zhongzheng, was born in 1887 at Xikou in Fenghua, Zhejiang. In 1908 he went to Japan to study at the Shinbu Gakko military school in Tokyo, and when the 1911 revolution broke out he returned and led a dare-to-die unit in the capture of Hangzhou. In 1924 he became commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy, in 1926 commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army on the Northern Expedition, and in 1928 chairman of the Nationalist government. Through the war with Japan he directed the armies as chairman of the Military Affairs Commission and attended the Cairo Conference in 1943. Elected president of the Republic of China in 1948, he moved with the government to Taiwan in 1949 and resumed the presidency in Taipei the next year. He died in Taipei on 5 April 1975; his coffin rests at Cihu in Taoyuan, and the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei was completed in 1980.
Life and times
Dates 1887 CE–1975 CE