Chan Kaishi - Pantsov A.V.

Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), who was at the head of the Republic of China for almost half a century, still appears to be a mysterious person. His turbulent revolutionary, diplomatic and personal life remained outside the demonstratively tendentious publications. Alexander Pantsov, a well-known Chinese scholar, doctor of historical sciences, professor, author of biographies of Mao Tse-tung and Deng Xiaopin ("YSL"), which was highly praised both in Russia and abroad, for the first time undertook a large-scale biography of this outstanding political and military figure of the 20th century. Pantsov's new book is based on previously inaccessible materials from the archives of Russia, China, Taiwan, the United States, as well as on the unpublished diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, documents from the vaults of the Hoover Institute (USA), taiwan's Academy of History, the Cec Of the Kuomintang, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the CIA - reveals the phenomenon of the mysterious leader of Chinese nationalists. The man who transformed China from a semi-colony into a world power, but lost the struggle for power in mainland China Mao Tse-tung. Undoubtedly of interest, and diplomatic battles of Chiang Kai-shek on the verge of detective with the heads of the leading world powers - Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and the peculiarities of everyday life of the Chinese people. The book is intended for the widest range of readers.