Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maps, the beautiful, bustling island 100 miles off the coast of China is clearly labeled: Taiwan. The swarms of tourists and businessmen who arrive at the cavernous Chiang Kai-shek International Airport know they have landed in Taiwan. Even hostile communist officials in Beijing sometimes refer to their old foes, the Nationalists, as "the authorities on Taiwan." But if the government on the island should ever begin calling itself the Republic of Taiwan, signaling that it is declaring its full independence from the mainland, the most likely reply from the People's Republic of China across the straits would...
...genius at not sinking. His enemies were legion: militarists, who resented his journalistic barbs at their incompetence; party rivals, who found him too zealous a supporter of the united front with the Kuomintang nationalists; landlords, who hated his pro-peasant rhetoric and activism; Chiang Kai-shek, who attacked his rural strongholds with relentless tenacity; the Japanese, who tried to smash his northern base; the U.S., after the Chinese entered the Korean War; the Soviet Union, when he attacked Khrushchev's anti-Stalinist policies. Mao was equally unsinkable in the turmoil--much of which he personally instigated--that marked the last...
After the communist victory over Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Mao's position was immeasurably strengthened. Despite all that the Chinese people had endured, it seems not to have been too hard for Mao to persuade them of the visionary force and practical need for the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. In Mao's mind, the intensive marshaling of China's energies would draw manual and mental labor together into a final harmonious synthesis and throw a bridge across the chasm of China's poverty to the promised...
...success fanned Luce's idealistic passions. His journalistic judgment could be clouded at times by his own commitments. On the issues and people he cared most about--China, American foreign policy, the Republican Party, Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Wendell Willkie--he personally directed coverage at critical times with a feverish and occasionally suffocating intensity. And on those subjects his magazines could be startlingly biased, even polemical. On most issues, however, Luce was relatively open-minded, deferential to his editors, receptive to many conflicting views, eager to attract the talents of gifted writers whatever their ideologies. His own politics were...
Despite this historic isolation from China, when Chiang Kai-shek first sent troops to Taiwan after World War II, the Taiwanese initially welcomed them, thinking that the Chinese would rule more fairly than the Japanese. 2-28 shattered these hopes. Soon after the massacre, martial law and an extensive secret police were instated for the next 40 years. Ironically, 2-28 had the important effect of cementing the Taiwanese identity--the people of Taiwan wanted little to do with their Chinese oppressors, and, for the first time, the Taiwanese strongly felt that they were indeed a distinct society and culture...