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Starting Anew on Taiwan: Chiang Kai-shek and Taiwan in 1949
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Ramon H. Myers; Hsiao-ting Lin
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Keywords: Taiwan; Chiang Kai-shek; China
Type: Brief
Coverage: Taiwan
Abstract:
How the discredited Chiang Kai-shek and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, along with half a million Chinese soldiers and some 2 million Chinese refugees, re-established the Republic of China on Taiwan.