Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Market. The exact shape of the new Sino-Russian relations in Manchuria were still not clear. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, at a notable press interview (see above), admitted that in "informal" talks the Russians had asked the Chinese Government for additional economic concessions in Manchuria...
Another member of the family, comely, slender Mme. Mao Tse-tung, was planning to leave Yenan for dental treatment in Chungking. Asked if she would see Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Mme. Mao smiled and said: "I hope so." She had last been in Nationalist China eight years ago, when she was still Shanghai Actress Lan Ping, one of her country's brightest cinema stars. She left the films for politics, made her way to Yenan. There, in 1939, she became Chairman Mao's fourth wife...
Late that evening, General Marshall called on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. For two hours they conferred. The Generalissimo's decision: the Government was strong enough to yield on the issue of Jehol and Chahar...
...Chiang Kaishek, China's Man of Eight Years, the events of 1945 came as a reward for unwavering courage and patience. Of all the Allies, China had endured the most. But the long-awaited, almost-despaired-of peace found Chiang embroiled in something close to civil war. He might well be the Man of 1946, or of some later year...
Their professors petitioned Chiang Kaishek and Mao Tse-tung to settle the domestic quarrel. Last month, in defiance of an official ban, the students paraded in the streets. Soldiers fired rifle volleys in the air to disperse them. The students called a strike. Uniformed rowdies threw hand grenades that killed three students and one professor...