What were some of Chiang Kai-Shek's accomplishment?
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found this some time ago, think may have what you need...\n\n\n\n\nThe last Chinese emperor abdicated in 1912. China fell into utter chaos until, in 1926, Chiang marched an army northward and achieved a semblance of national unification. From 1928 China was under Chiang's dictatorship, with Nanking as the capital. However, Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. Four years later, Chiang's grand effort to stamp out the Chinese Communist party failed when Mao Tse-tung took his followers on the Long March to a remote region. In 1937 the Japanese invaded metropolitan China in force and a general war commenced, with the U.S. joining in on China's side after Pearl Harbor. Chiang and Mao maintained a wary alliance until Japan's defeat. Then there was civil war. The Communists won, establishing the People's Republic in 1949. Chiang fled to Taiwan, where he maintained an authoritarian dictatorship until his death in 1975. \n\nThe conventional wisdom, naturally much encouraged by the Communists and their Western shills, is that Chiang lost China because he was inflexibly incompetent, cared nothing for the common people, and alienated his U.S. ally by permitting his wife's family to loot the country for their own enrichment. One of the things one hopes to learn from a book about Chiang is the degree to which this conventional wisdom is correct. Jonathan Fenby's new biography leaves one believing that it is, with some minor qualifications. To borrow a rhetorical figure from Orwell: Some things are true even though the Chinese Communist party says they are true.\n\nIn fact, once civil-war passions had cooled, the Communists adopted a more generous line towards Chiang. When he died in 1975, they offered to make a suitable burial plot available for him in his home district. (The offer was refused.) The traditional attitude of the Chinese to failed political enterprises is: "If you win, you're the Emperor; if you lose, you're a bandit." This at least has a certain moral neutrality about it, and leaves scope for magnanimity, so long as the failed enterprise can be shown to have had some patriotic color. Chiang's undoubtedly did. Fenby shows us that Chiang was, from his earliest years, motivated mainly by patriotism, though it was a patriotism refracted through his own narrow mind and stunted, unattractive personality. \n\nYet Chiang's greatest enemy was neither Japan nor Mao, but China herself. It requires an effort of imagination for an American of today to grasp the sheer backwardness of China in the period Fenby is writing about, the first half of the 20th century. China was, to be sure, a great civilization, with a glittering literary tradition stretching back continuously to the Bronze Age, respectable accomplishments in pre-industrial science and technology, and a great body of religious and philosophical writing. In matters social, political, and economic, however, China was medieval. Reading Fenby's book, time and again one feels oneself to be not in the modern world at all, but in the Scotland of Macbeth, the Germany of Otto the Great, or the England of the early Plantagenets. Listen:\n\nThough the small, delicate, ruthless governor [of Yunnan Province] had rallied to the Kuomintang cause in name, his revenues from opium and slave-labor tin mines made him anything but a model ally for the national revolution. . . . He had invited a rebellious general with whom he had reached a peace agreement to a luncheon banquet in a tent. At the end of the meal, a swordsman behind the guest chopped off his head, which was then hung from a telegraph pole at the entry to the capital . . .\n\nIt did not help that Chiang himself was distinctly a product of that very backwardness. His governing style was imperial-Confucian: "Tremble and obey!" He could not be bothered much with consultation, and resented disagreement. By Fenby's account, he was not such a military duffer as I had previously
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Not feeling like doing your homework, hm? The Seoncd Worldwar had something to do with it, also the League of Nations. Just look it up.
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I am puzzled by your question - geography?\nanyway the following article is taken from travelchinaguide.com - hope it answers.\n\n\nThe king of the Qin state, Yinzheng, conquered the other six dukes through ten years of wars and brought an end to the riotous Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC) in 221 BC. He built up the Qin Dynasty - the first unified, multi-national, autocratic and power-centralized state in Chinese history - by making Xianyang, a city near Xian in the Shaanxi Province, his capital city. Although Qin is a short dynasty with a span of only fifteen years, it started off a 2,000-year-long imperial history in China and exerted a far-reaching influence on the subsequent dynasties. Except for frontiers in the west, southwest and northeast, Qin's territory has been kept fairly intact up to the present-day. To protect the northern frontier, the first Qin emperor ordered the construction of the Great Wall. He instituted centralism and a strict set of rules by which people lived in oppression. An army of peasants overthrew the harsh Qin regime just one year after the death of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang in 207 BC.\n\nPolitical History \n\nThe first Qin emperor lived from 259 BC to 210 BC. He was crowned at the age of 13 after his king father died. Since he was too young to administer his country, the real power was in the hand of the prime minister, Lu Buwei, who --allegedly--was the real father of the young emperor. Emperor Qin remained silent and continued to strengthen his own force. When the right occasion presented itself, he arrested the prime minister and sentenced him to death. Upon hearing the news, the prime minister did nothing but roar out in laughter, "Well done, well done, that is my boy." \n\n The first Qin emperor seized the power at the age of 22 in 238 BC. Soon after, he launched a unification campaign from 230 BC to 221 BC. The emperor was a great politician. After unifying the country, he carried out a series of political reforms. He divided the country into 36 prefectures, which he again subdivided into more counties. All the regional governments were subordinate to the central government, which was ruled by the emperor himself. The first Qin emperor standardized the measurement of weight and length, written script, legal system and currency. He migrated thousands of people to southern border areas to pioneer the virgin land. Since the northern tribe the Xiongnu plundered the northern frontiers repeatedly, Emperor Qin appointed one of his excellent generals - Mengtian - to the northern areas. Mengtian beat back the Xiongnu tribe and supervised the construction of the Great Wall.\n\nDespite all great jobs he did, Emperor Qin ruled as a ruthless tyrant. In order to standardize human thoughts, he burnt most of the books in the country to prevent freethinking. Furthermore, the emperor imposed heavy taxes and constrained thousands of people to work on the Great Wall. In the second year after his enthronement, he started the construction of his mausoleum, which took almost 700,000 conscripts over 30 years to complete. In order to continue his reign after his death, he also ordered the construction of the Terra-Cotta Army east of his mausoleum.\n\n The tyranny of Emperor Qin Shi Huang and his successor resulted in wide opposition throughout the country. Peasant uprisings continually struck the regime of the Qin. Finally, in 207 BC, Xiangyu's army inflicted heavy losses on the Qin army; and in the following year, Liu Bang broke Xianyang, the capital of Qin, thus putting an end to the notorious Qin Dynasty.\n\nLater, in pursuit of the domination of the country, a four-year war known as the Chu-Han War broke out between Xiangyu and Liu Bang. Finally, Liu Bang defeated Xiangyu in 202 BC and established the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 24 AD), after which he proclaimed himself the emperor of the Han.
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A Chinese have been elected to be head of WHO.
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Sun Yat-sen was the 1st president. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_China\n\nLook under History
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Hope this is not too late\n\nIt's fascinating - went from an imperial government to republic, lots of corruption, then to communist, famine, cultural revolution, then a little bit capital with the opening of the economy, more corrupt, and now the country is pretty stable.\n\nMillions upon millions of people died, values changed, people became selfless (when the govt promoted a man called Lei Feng) and now adays it's every man for himself no matter what happens to everyone else.
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Japan, without any provocation on the part of China, brutally attacked and subjugated Manchuria starting in 1933.  Their preferred tactics included massive amounts of propaganda, terrorizing the civilian population, wholesale slaughter of civilians, rape/"comfort women," etc.  The Nazis took a page from the Japanese playbook when they invaded eastern Europe.\nIt is not true that Mao Zhedong's communists were the only ones fighting hard against the Japanese.  That is just a small piece of the heap of communist lies.  The quality of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist troops varied widely, but most acquitted themselves very well fighting the invaders.  In any case, Japanese terror tactics did not differentiate between communists and non-communists.\nRead the history of the "Nanking Massacre."  Read the history of the invasion, as told by foreigners and the Chinese themselves.  Don't just rely on the Japanese revisionism that persists to this day.\nIf not for the heroic efforts of the Nationalists, the Allies, and, yes, the communists, Japan would still be occupying China today.
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1. uniquely impressive life expectancy gains (40 to 65) via widespread equitable social welfare policies   2. institutions necessary for a green revolution in agriculture that spread throughout China from 1965-1983  3. a basic industrialization foundation (albeit grossly imbalanced towards heavy industry and military) for reformers to build on  4. unintentionally stimulating later democracy debates and movements by invoking the Paris Commune ideals in the early Cultural Revolution (ideals he soon betrayed).  \n\nThese achivements have to be balanced against the 1959-61 famine, imprisonment of real and supposed dissenters, two major episodes of state violence, and the elimination of most non-propagandistic art, literature, film, etc.
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Nationalist Party.\n\nUnderstand the reason that the Communists came to rule China was that the Nationalists were corrupt.  USA gave weapons to the Nationalists to fight the Communists and Nationalist soldiers sold them to the Communists.  It was one of the most corrupt government of China.
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China have 5,000 years of history, theres was a long of changes in dynasty and civil wars before the Republic, you are not refering to this are you?\n\nIf you are refering to the last one after the Qing Dynasty, it started when Dr. Sun Yat Sen overthrew the Qing dynasty and establish the republic in 1911. What result from this was some Marshall [General of the army equivalent] became warlords, each establishing its own territory with its own army.\n\nGeneralismo Chiang Kai Shek finally bring everyone under control, but during the warlord times, too many peope suffers and lost their wealth, thats when Mao Tse Tung became the chairman of the communist party. Civil war between the nationalist and communist erupt.\n\nAmerica was supporting Chiang at that time, it was also at this time when Japan start expanding its empire [still under the emperor rule], invade China. \n\nMao was loosing the civil war, the Japanese is conquering more area. The turn of the event when the young Marshall kidnap Chiang and force Chiang to unite with Mao to fight the Japanese, which Chiang agrees. Mao took this opportunity to recoup and expand.\n\nBy the time world war 2 is over, the communist is larger than the nationalist, the civil war continues and by 1949, Chiang lost the control of China and fled to Taiwan with 2 million troop and start his exile in Taiwan and government.\n\nOverall, no truce was sign, technically, China and Taiwan civil war is not yet over, but heck, who want a war in this generation?
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Right, Empress Wu Ze-Tian is the first one that comes to mind.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Zetian\n\n\nMulan probably did exist in history, if you want to count her.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Mulan\n\nYang Gui-fei was the favorite concubine who had quite a lot of power. In the Tang dynasty (618-907), which was a high point in Chinese civilization.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Gui_Fei\n\nBefore 1600 is quite limiting.  You can't count Dowager Empress Ci Xi or Mao's 4th wife, Jiang Qing, or any of the wives of Communist or Nationalist leaders.
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Not many countries get involved with Chinese internal issues. Just look at how everybody backed off from the Taiwanese independence issue also.
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I think disintegration of the USSR as a communist dictatorship can be considered as an achievement itself.\n\nI think Gorbachev did a great service to his country by bringing it back from Orwellian "1984" world back to reality. One can argue what better economic policy could be applied to start moving from centralized economy to the market economy, but Gorbachev role in political reforms and restoring "human values" (общечеловеческих ценностей) is hard to overestimate.\n\nMy personal opinion is that Gorbachev did not really know that it was the beginning of the end when he started his actions in 1985, he honestly believed in a "socialism with human face". And many people (including myself) would simply laugh, if somebody told them in early 1985 that in slightly more than 6 years their country would cease to exist and the communist party will be outlawed (although briefly).
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What acheivements? Pointless war? Extreme debt? Death? Reduction of rights? What exactly would you like to celebrate about these accomplishments?
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China--(Manchuria)\n\nAn explosion on a section of the South Manchuria Railway, gave the army the excuse it needed to blame the local population of sabotage and to occupy the nearest Manchurian town of Shenyang. The League at China’s request immediately ordered the Japanese army to withdraw. Japan’s delegates at the League’s headquarters in Geneva, agreed to this demand and blamed the event on army "hot-heads". \n\nThe Japanese government in Tokyo also agreed to this demand. However, the army did not listen and it launched a full-scale invasion of Manchuria and by the end of 1931, it had occupied the whole of the province. The civilian government had clearly lost control of the army, and the League’s position was that it would deal with the government of the aggressor nation. But how could this succeed when the government had no control over the army which was the cause of the problem ?
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The RailRoads and MRT's. Most projects that have been built after Marcos' reign were actually his administration's projects. And seven upto this date most people, even foreigners say...the best status of Philippines was Marcos' time.
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Hu Jintao\n(leader of communist china)\npresident of the peoples republic of china\nchairman of the central militaty commission\n& the general secretary of the communist party of china\n\ntook over for jiang zemin in 2003