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How did Mao Zedong defeat Chiang Kai Shek?

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He didn't defeat Chiang Kai Shek, the people did. The Chinese economy had been wiped out from war with Japan. The people were starving. A communist utopia was an easy sell. If Mao and Chiang were alive today, there's no way in hell Mao would win. read more

Chiang, meanwhile, has been the beneficiary of much-needed historical revisionism that has gone under the radar of the Western elite. In 2003, Jonathan Fenby, former editor of the London Observer, published the revisionist biography, Chiang Kai-shek: China’s Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. read more

Chiang Kai-shek's second wife, Soong Mei-ling, became a significant political figure in her own right. In addition to her address of Congress in 1943, the Wellesley-educated "Madame Chiang" wrote many articles on China for the American press. read more

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