[chang kahy-shek, jyahng] 
(Chiang Chung-cheng ) 1886?–1975, Chinese army officer and political leader: president of the Republic of China 1950–75. |
[jyahng jye-shœ] .| Chiang Kai-shek (chāng' kī'shěk', jyäng') Chinese military and political figure who led the Nationalists against the rising Communist forces and was driven from the mainland to Taiwan (1949), where he served as president of Nationalist China until his death. |
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, recognized by the United States until 1979 as the only legitimate government of China.
