Source 8: National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Republic of China (Photograph)
Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
The Chiang Kai-Shek memorial hall in Taipei is a divisive monument for some as it harks back to a time when Taiwan was subject to military rule. The name of the memorial hall has since been formally changed to liberty square but many still refer to the complex by its original name. The surface area of the memorial hall covers 250,000 square meters.
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Source 1: Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek at the 1924 opening ceremonies for the Soviet-funded Whampoa Military Academy (Photograph)
Whampoa Military Academy
Chiang's first prominent position in the Nationalist Party was as commander-in-chief of the Whampoa Military Academy. The academy was supported by Soviet funds to train up soldiers who could provide the manpower to reunite China. Before Chiang's purge of the Communists in 1927, members of both the CCP and GMD trained here. During the Chinese civil war, commanders of both army's respective troops received the same training at Whampoa.
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http://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub5/entry-2764.html#chapter-9
Source 3 Chiang Kai-shek (R) poses for a photo in 1936 with Zhang Xueliang (L) and Yang Hucheng on his fourth trip to Xi'an
Xi'an Incident
The Xi'an incident was one of the most pivotal events in Chiang's life. Here he is pictured with his captors in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Zhang was confined to house arrest for over 50 years on both the mainland and in Taiwan whilst Yang was killed before the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. Yang Hucheng continued to be critical of Chiang after the Xi'an incident after a relatively mild punishment of being sent to Europe on a research tour. Upon his return, he wished to regain military command and evinced communist sympathies which perhaps sealed his fate.
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CPC history in pictures (3): Agrarian Revolutionary War (1927-1937)
https://cpcchina.chinadaily.com.cn/2011-08/09/content_13915614_24.htm
1936
Source 4 Anon (1962) The Great Traitor Chiang Kai-shek (Wuhan: Hubei Renmin Chubanshe, 1962), 43.
Communist caricatures of Chiang
This cartoon was published in a communist magazine in 1962 during Mao's Great Leap Forward. At this time, Chiang had been contemplating the invasion of the Chinese mainland if he could muster US military support. To counter this threat, Communists harked back to the memory of the Sino-Japanese war, portraying Chiang as an incompetent general, running away from city after city to escape the Japanese menace.
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Hubei Renmin Chubanshe (Hubei People's publishing house)
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/chiangkaishek/artwork/23/
Source 5: British Pathe (1943) Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in the USA
International aid during the Sino-Japanese War
Madame Chiang-Kai Shek had excellent English and was adept at international relations, encouraging Americans to support China's war effort. She was the first private citizen of any country to address the House of Representatives in Washington D.C.
British Pathe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar36zk31I30
1943
Source 2 : Anon. (1927) Wedding of Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Meiling (Photograph)
Soong Meiling was the daughter of a wealthy Chinese businessman. Chiang had originally met Soong Meiling in 1920 but her family were not in favour of marriage as Chiang was not a Christian. When Chiang promised to convert to Christianity, the marriage received the Soong family's blessing. After 1949, Meiling accompanied Chiang to Taiwan whilst her sister, Ching-Ling, remained on the mainland in support of the Communists.
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