Word: kai-shek
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...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...
...studies at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. In what was then China's naughtiest and most revolutionary-minded city, he discovered Benny Goodman and English films as well as communist politics. He joined the party at the age of 19, and once had to escape the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek by hiding in the trunk of his university president...
...slip further, into the bright, white bald-headed life of THX-1138 (1970), George Lucas' art-house sci-fi first feature, expanded from a student film he did at USC. Robert Duvall stars with Donald Pleasance (an easy bit of casting); look for cameos by Yul Brynner and Chiang Kai-Shek. Imagine a world of naked sadism, prescription drugs and robot policemen ? where the only erotic words are "no one is watching," and everyone really is. Imagine a bleak, bleached future in which "sexual perversion" (in this case, just regular sex) was a punishable crime...
...suppress the protests, the Nationalist Government leader, Chiang Kai-shek, imposed martial law on the island and sent troops from mainland China. As the troops moved from north to south on the island, they killed roughly 20,000 people indiscriminately...