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Schwartz calls this period of collaboration one of the most confusing and complex in modern history. He extensively analyzes the key trends of doctrine during this era in relation to the two opposing leaders, Chiang Kai-shek and Ch'en Tu-hsiu. Mao, at that time, was busily organizing the peasants--the class he believed would instigate the revolution...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: China's Way to Revolution | 10/11/1951 | See Source »

Some months later this change was made at the plea of Chiang Kai-shek himself. "History suggests that if my recommendations had been followed when made . . . the chances are good the Generalissimo would have been ruling China today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Progressive's Progress | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...brand new Japan has become the white hope of democracy in the Far East, and there have been some extraordinary efforts to keep it pure. One such is an ultimatum presented by a group of Republican and Southern Democratic congressmen to the State Department demanding that Japan recognize Chiang-kai-Shek as China's true leader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purity | 9/26/1951 | See Source »

Behind the charges lay a complex story of bureaucratic intrigue and counter-intrigue-the kind of factional squabbling that has been one of the Nationalists' gravest weaknesses. A Whampoa cadet sent by Chiang Kai-shek to study aviation in Moscow in 1927 (before the Nationalists and Communists split), Mao set up his country's first military air academy at Hangchow in 1932, helped Chennault build up the Flying Tigers during the Japanese war, served in the postwar period as chief representative of the Chinese air force abroad. But Mao's pet ambition was thwarted when Chiang made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crime & Punishment | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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