Chiang Kai-shek
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Chiang Kai-shek 🇨🇳

蔣中正 (蔣介石)
["Generalissimo", "President of the Republic of China", "Nationalist Leader"]
Born Oct 31, 1887 🇨🇳 Xikou (Fenghua, Zhejiang), Qing Empire
Passed Away Apr 05, 1975 Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Lifespan 87 years old
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Archival Overview

Leader of the Republic of China for nearly half a century, who led the Northern Expedition, fought Imperial Japan in World War II, and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, laying the foundation for Taiwan's economic takeoff.

Biographical Record

Trained at the Tokyo Military State Academy, Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) was appointed by Sun Yat-sen as first commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924. In 1926, he launched the Northern Expedition, defeating regional warlords to nominally unify China under the Nationalist (KMT) government in Nanjing.

Chiang led China through eight grueling years of resistance against Imperial Japanese invasion (1937–1945), making China one of the Big Four Allied powers of World War II and a founding permanent member of the UN Security Council. Defeated by Mao Zedong's communists in 1949, he relocated the ROC government to Taiwan.

Key Life Milestones

1928

Unification of China in Northern Expedition

Defeated northern warlord cliques, establishing the Nationalist capital in Nanjing.

1943

The Cairo Conference

Met with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo as one of the Big Four Allied leaders.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Cihu Mausoleum (Black Marble Sarcophagus)
Daxi District (Taoyuan), Taiwan
GPS: 24.8417, 121.2983
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