Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kill them all, keep it secret." --Chiang Kai-shek, in response to Taiwanese protesters...
...after World War II). In addition, the government targeted many scholars, students, lawyers, doctors and local leaders in an effort to purge Taiwan of all intellectuals who even hinted at opposing the Nationalists. A watershed event in both Taiwanese and world history, 2-28 was thoroughly covered-up by Chiang's government, and it is almost never mentioned in history textbooks...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK 1937 Reigning in a China beset by Japan and civil strife...
...status of Taiwan, an island province which became the Republic of China after Communist victories drove Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government there in 1949, was one of the over riding issues surrounding Jiang's speech...
...While I was writing my thesis, I also worked as a freelance journalist." Di Cosmo says. "One day, a Chinese director I interviewed drafted me to be in his film, Xi-An Incident, where Chiang Kaishek is kidnapped. I played an American military officer who was invited to a ball. I had to learn how to waltz for the scene, but then again, I got to dance with a very attractive actress...