Sentence examples for chiang from inspiring English sources

CHIANG KAI-SHEK may once have been revered as a near-god on Taiwan, where he led his Chinese Nationalist regime after being defeated by Mao Zedong's Communists on the mainland in 1949.

In 1971, as Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger prepared their opening to China, and consequent ditching of Taiwan, their plans reached Chiang not from Washington, DC, but from Zhou Enlai, China's premier.

It was Chiang, not Mao, who wanted a united front against Japan.

In return, Chiang wanted the Russians to return his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, whom they were effectively holding hostage.

Having assumed control, he is said to have told some Japanese visitors that the communists "would still be in the mountains today" had it not been for the Japanese invasion.Mao calculated that if the Japanese defeated Chiang, the Russians would have no choice but to intervene.

An estimated 28,000 were killed.Blaming the massacres on Chiang and the "outside" regime of the KMT, the DPP announced plans to rename the giant Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei as the "Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall", and tear down the sanctuary's perimeter wall.

STOUT and loquacious, Khamsi Audomsi runs a roasted-banana stall in the covered market of San Kamphaeng, a small town just outside Chiang Mai, the main city of northern Thailand.

One is the DPP's drive to expunge from Taiwan symbols of Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT leader, who led its retreat from mainland China in 1949.

OUTSIDE the town of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, a series of small villages inhabited by hill-tribes, indigenous ethnic minorities, stretches across the thickly forested hills.

In the worst scuffle, a policeman was badly hurt and six people detained.Mr Chen and his Taiwanese counterpart, Chiang Pin-kun, agreed they would negotiate ECFA at a summit in China in the first half of 2010.

To begin with, the party was dominated by Chinese nationalists exiles who had fled the mainland in 1949 with Chiang Kai-shek, most of whom cherished the goal of eventual reunification.