Word: kuo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chiang Ching-kuo grew up barely knowing his father, who was away most of the time making a career in the military. He was educated in the Soviet Union, embraced Communism for a time, and at one point signed a denunciation calling his father an "enemy of the working class." Later, Soviet authorities made - Chiang a virtual hostage, banishing him to Siberia and the Urals. There he married a young Russian woman named Faina...
President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan was so unlike his famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week...
...Chiang Ching-kuo was finally allowed to return home after twelve years in the Soviet Union. He served in a succession of government posts, and in 1949 joined his father and 2 million other mainlanders in a mass retreat across the Formosa Strait after the Communists seized power in Beijing. Chiang Ching-kuo then presided over a political-warfare department that policed the island against mainland infiltrators and waged propaganda campaigns against the Communists...
...that lasted more than six decades but also saw its dominion shrink from the world's most populous nation to a ( small island off the mainland of China. Shortly after 8 p.m. last Wednesday, programming on Taiwan's government-owned television and radio stations was suddenly interrupted. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa was shown addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng...
...telling measure of parental attention is homework. A 1984 study of San Francisco-area schools by Stanford Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch found that Asian-American students put in an average of eleven hours a week, compared with seven hours by other students. Westinghouse Prizewinner John Kuo recalls that in Taiwan he was accustomed to studying two or three hours a night. "Here we had half an hour at the most." To make up the difference, John and his two brothers were often given extra assignments at home. "Asian parents spend much more time with their children than American parents...