[PDF] The Flight From Mukden eBook

Author : Jay Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 47,18 MB
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674054717

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One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of China—he fled to Taiwan, where he ruled for another twenty-five years. Playing a key role in the cold war with China, Chiang suppressed opposition with his “white terror,” controlled inflation and corruption, carried out land reform, and raised personal income, health, and educational levels on the island. Consciously or not, he set the stage for Taiwan’s evolution of a Chinese model of democratic modernization. Drawing heavily on Chinese sources including Chiang’s diaries, The Generalissimo provides the most lively, sweeping, and objective biography yet of a man whose length of uninterrupted, active engagement at the highest levels in the march of history is excelled by few, if any, in modern history. Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.

Author : Lt. Colonel Joseph R. Clark
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1645305198

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F-86E Sabre vs. Russian MiG-15 Some Korean Air-to-Air War Tales Revisited By: Lt. Colonel Joseph R. Clark Since the Korean War ended in 1953, several books and articles have been published about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russian MiGs in the skies over North Korea and China. Some parts of some of the stories that appear in those publications are true, but many of them contain fantasies, exaggerations, and lies that are both preposterous and demeaning to the Air Force. Unfortunately, much of what survives in the west as the history of those epic air battles is found in those partially flawed publications.

Author : Bruno Skoggard
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1312656883

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A rollicking tale of flying in China during the Revolution of 1947-48. The stakes are high and so are the rewards for the daredevil community of ex-patriot men and women living in Beijing during one of the most turbulent events in modern history.