Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions: Crash Course World History #37
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In which John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily uprooting the dynastic system that had ruled there for millennia. Most revolutions have some degree of tumult associated with them, but China's 20th century revolutions were REALLY disruptive. In 1911 and 1912, Chinese nationalists brought 3000 years of dynastic rule to an end. China plunged into chaos as warlords staked out regions of the country for themselves. The nationalists and communists joined forces briefly to bring the nation back together under the Chinese Republic, and then they quickly split and started fighting the Chinese Civil War. The fight between nationalists and communists went on for decades, and was interrupted by an alliance to fight the invading Japanese during World War II. After the World War II ended, the Chinese Civil War was back on. Mao and the communists were ultimately victorious, and Chiang Kai-Shek ended up in Taiwan. And then it got weird. Mao spent years repeatedly trying to purify the Communist Party and build up the new People's Republic of China with Rectifications, Anti Campaigns, Five Year Plans. the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. These had mixed results, to say the least. John will cover all this and more in this week's Crash Course World History.
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《国家宝藏》 20180107 【National Treasure】 宁静前世传奇化身武则天 诠释到位女王范十足 | CCTV综艺
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05:42 宋人摹顾恺之《洛神赋图》 国宝守护人:陈晓
35:20 铜鎏金木芯马镫 国宝守护人:关晓彤
01:04:28 《万岁通天帖》 国宝守护人:宁静
《国家宝藏》将迎来新中国的第一座博物馆——辽宁省博物馆。70年前,辽博人的前辈在硝烟、动荡的时代不畏艰险奔波忙碌,用近半年时间将散落在东北区域的历代书法名画、山本古籍、玉器瓷器等数以万计的藏品收集起来。之后,新一代辽博人又随着共和国发展,不断丰富辽博馆藏。本期节目中,著名演员宁静、陈晓、关晓彤将通过他们精彩的演绎带来《万岁通天帖》、宋人摹顾恺之《洛神赋图》和铜鎏金木芯马镫三件千年国宝的前世传奇,讲述那些被历史尘封的故事。(《国家宝藏》 20180107)
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The Opium War - Lost in Compensation l HISTORY OF CHINA
The Opium War started as a dispute over trading rights between China and Great Britain. Regular trade between Europe and the Chinese had been ongoing for centuries. But China's trading restrictions frustrated the British who were eager to supply the Chinese people with the increasingly popular narcotic Opium. Circumventing the government's attempts to ban opium trade by smuggling and bribery, China declared the death sentence on Opium smuggling and refused to compensate British tradesmen for any losses. Furiously, the Brits sent out a fleet to demand compensation and end the Cohong trading monopoly. Fierce battles and attacks on the Chinese coast were followed. Find out all about the First Opium War from Indy in our new episode of Battlefields!
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Government Of Taiwan
The '''Government of the Republic of China''' was formally established in 1912 in Nanking, with Sun Yat-sen as President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China under the Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China. This government moved to Beijing in the same year with Yuan Shikai as President, and continued under his successors as the internationally recognized government of China until 1928. In the Republican period, there were a series of governments, sometimes in rivalry with each other. The Nationalist government, led by the Kuomintang ( K M T ) , was originally formed as a rival military government under Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou in 1917. After Sun's death in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expedition ( 1926–1928 ) to unify the country and established the capital in Nanjing. This government gained diplomatic recognition but did not control all the territory of the Qing dynasty. The essentially one-party rule functioned under Sun's Three Principles of the People, which provided for a transitional period of tutelage, but drew more political parties, including the Communist Party of China into a United Front during the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ) . The Tutelage Constitution of 1931 was replaced by the Constitution of the Republic of China in 1947. This new constitutional government moved to Taipei, Taiwan, in 1949 because of its military losses in the Chinese Civil War. It remains in Taiwan and exercises control over other islands including Penghu, Quemoy, Matsu, Itu Aba, and Pratas. Control of the government had historically been dominated by the Kuomintang, but the situation has changed as the Republic of China evolved into a multi-party democracy.
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On the 12th of February 1912 Puyi, China’s Last Emperor, abdicated. China now commenced into uncharted political territory: it became a republic. One day after Puyi’s abdication, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, provisional president of the Chinese republic, abdicated in favour of general Yuan Shikai, given that he’d respect the Chinese republic. Yuan Shikai had other plans however, among which eventually reinstating the monarchy. Not for nostalgic and sentimental reasons, though. No… he himself would be the emperor of China.
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Baum, R. (2010). The Fall and Rise of China. The Great Courses: Modern History.
Fairbank, J. K., & Reischauer, E. O. (1989). China: tradition & transformation (Vol. 57). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Horst, D. (1977). Geschiedenis van China. Het Spectrum.
Spence, J. D. (1990). The search for modern China. WW Norton & Company.
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Collapse of the Chinese Empire | Xinhai Revolution | History of China
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China’s Qing dynasty suffered massive defeats and hardships throughout the 19th century. Two Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Sino-Japanese war and natural disasters and famine. Surely, this couldn’t go on for much longer? And indeed, it wouldn’t. In 1911, the sequence of events was triggered that would result in the abdication of China’s last emperor and collapse of the Qing dynasty. Many plots had been devised for this to happen - twisted irony has it that it started with an accidental bomb explosion with no master plan at all. And Sun Yat-sen, principal architect of the revolution, was thousands of miles away.
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Fairbank, J. K., & Reischauer, E. O. (1989). China: tradition & transformation (Vol. 57). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Opium Wars | World History | Khan Academy
The British wage two wars on China to have better access to Chinese markets, especially to sell opium grown in British India.
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Shanghai Bund By Night (Nanjing Road to The Bund) China Walking Tour【2019】/上海外滩中国徒步旅行【2019】
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The Bund or Waitan (Chinese: 外滩, literally: 'Outer Beach') is a waterfront area in central Shanghai. The area centres on a section of Zhongshan Road (East No.1 Zhongshan Road) within the former Shanghai International Settlement, which runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River in the eastern part of Huangpu District. The area along the river faces the modern skyscrapers of Lujiazui in the Pudong District. The Bund usually refers to the buildings and wharves on this section of the road, as well as some adjacent areas. From the 1860s to the 1930s, it was the rich and powerful centre of the foreign establishment in Shanghai, operating as a legally protected treaty port.
The Shanghai Bund has dozens of historical buildings, lining the Huangpu River, that once housed numerous banks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain, a newspaper, the Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. The Bund lies north of the old, walled city of Shanghai. It was initially a British settlement; later the British and American settlements were combined in the International Settlement. Magnificent commercial buildings in the Beaux Arts style sprang up in the years around the turn of the 20th century as the Bund developed into a major financial centre of east Asia. Directly to the south, and just northeast of the old walled city, the former French Bund (the quai de France, part of the Shanghai French Concession) was of comparable size to the Bund but functioned more as a working harbourside.
By the 1940s, the Bund housed the headquarters of many, if not most, of the major financial institutions operating in China, including the big four national banks in the Republic of China era. However, with the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war, many of the financial institutions were moved out gradually in the 1950s, and the hotels and clubs closed or converted to other uses. The statues of colonial figures and foreign worthies which had dotted the riverside were also removed.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, with the thawing of economic policy in the People's Republic of China, buildings on the Bund were gradually returned to their former uses. Government institutions were moved out in favour of financial institutions, while hotels resumed trading as such. Also during this period, a series of floods caused by typhoons motivated the municipal government to construct a tall levee along the riverfront, with the result that the embankment now stands some 10 metres higher than street level. In the 1990s, Zhongshan Road (named after Sun Yat-sen), the road on which the Bund is centred, was widened to ten lanes. As a result, most of the parkland which had existed along the road disappeared. Also in this period, the ferry wharves connecting the Bund and Pudong, which had served the area's original purpose, were removed. A number of pleasure cruises still operate from some nearby wharves.
In the 1990s, the Shanghai government attempted to promote an extended concept of the Bund to boost tourism, and land value in nearby areas, as well as to reconcile the promotion of colonial relics with the Socialist ideology. In its expanded form, the term Bund (as New Bund or Northern Bund) was used to refer to areas south of the Yan'an Road, and a stretch of riverfront north of the Suzhou River (Zhabei). Such use of the term, however, remains rare outside of tourism literature.
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Apple Suppliers in China Accused of Labor Abuse
Do you own an iPhone? What about an iPad? Well, a labor rights group said today that those products may have been produced in Chinese factories under pretty shoddy conditions.
New York-based China Labor Watch has accused a Taiwanese-owned supplier for Apple of mistreating its workers - doing things like hiring underage workers, forcing employees to work unpaid overtime, and in hazardous working conditions.
The company is called Pegatron Corp, and they assemble iPads and iPhones at factories in Shanghai and Suzhou.
So far, Pegatron is denying these allegations, but has promised to carry out an investigation and correct any violations of Chinese labor laws.
Apple is no stranger to these worker abuse accusations. One of its biggest suppliers, Foxconn was involved in several scandals in recent years, including a spate of worker suicides at its plants in China.
Since then, Apple has tried to improve its image by doing their own audits of suppliers to ensure workers are being treated properly.
China Labor Watch says it carried out undercover investigations between March and July this year, and had interviewed almost 200 Pegatron employees. It says the company has broken labor laws by withholding pay, and employees on average worked 66-69 hour weeks, despite Chinese laws mandating a 49-hour minimum.
The organization says this latest report is part of efforts to see whether labor abuse in suppliers for Apple is isolated, or whether it's something much more common. And they believe the problem exists across many of Apple's suppliers.
Companies that China Labor Watch investigated including Jabil, based in the US, several Chinese companies like United Win, Riteng and Tenglong, as well as Malaysia-based Kenseisha.
So what's the lesson here? China has been a very attractive place for global corporations to set up shop because labor is cheap and they can get away with much more in terms of environmental pollution and labor violations. But the question I have is, who's responsible for monitoring these kinds of things? The companies definitely are partly to blame, but isn't it also the government's job to supervise these companies? If labor laws are properly enforced, and companies know that there will be legal consequences if they don't play by the rules, perhaps we wouldn't have to wait for whistleblowers to expose these types of mistreatments.
What do you guys think about this? Why do we keep hearing about labor violations in China? Is it up to multinationals to be law enforcers there, should the suppliers be doing the right thing in the first place, or is all of this the result of poor labor enforcement laws?
03/03/2017: Australia recalls diplomats & Employment of China
Australia is recalling all of its all 113 foreign diplomats for a two-day summit next month to revamp its foreign policy in uncertain times. Why is it in such a hurry to do that? And last year China managed to create more than 13 million urban jobs for the fourth consecutive year. But how can one maintain that trend against a global downturn?
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《国家宝藏》 20171203 【National Treasure】 王凯带你穿越千年,一览国宝前世今生 | CCTV综艺
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35:17 各种釉彩大瓶 国宝守护人:王凯
01:05:20 “中华第一古物”石鼓 国宝守护人:梁家辉
著名演员王凯、李晨、梁家辉作为“国宝守护人”,在现场演绎国家宝藏背后的“前世传奇”和“今生故事”,分享他们与国宝之间的缘分。
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China And The Chinese (1928)
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History of the Republic of China | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:04 1 Early republic (1912–1916)
00:03:16 1.1 Founding of the republic
00:07:57 1.2 Early republic
00:09:36 1.3 Journalism
00:10:42 1.4 Second Revolution
00:13:46 1.5 Mass banditry, Yuan Shikai and the National Protection War
00:18:59 2 Warlord Era (1916–1928)
00:19:45 2.1 World War I and brief Manchu restoration
00:23:01 2.2 Constitutional Protection War
00:25:27 2.3 May Fourth Movement
00:26:32 2.4 Fight against warlordism and the First United Front
00:30:05 2.5 Chiang consolidates power
00:33:19 3 Nanjing decade (1928–1937)
00:36:17 4 Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
00:41:23 5 Chinese Civil War (1945–1949)
00:46:12 6 Republic of China only controls Taiwan (after 1949)
00:46:26 6.1 Cross-straits relations and international position in 1949–1970
00:53:45 6.2 Tensions between Mainlanders and people of Taiwan
00:57:42 6.3 Economic developments
00:59:08 6.4 Diplomatic setbacks
01:00:40 6.5 Democratic reforms
01:06:51 6.6 Political transition
01:13:24 7 See also
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The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic put an end to 4,000 years of Imperial rule. The Qing dynasty, (also known as the Manchu dynasty), ruled from 1644–1912. The Republic had experienced many trials and tribulations after its founding which included being dominated by elements as disparate as warlord generals and foreign powers.
In 1928, the Republic was nominally unified under the Kuomintang (KMT)—Chinese Nationalist Party—after the Northern Expedition, and was in the early stages of industrialization and modernization when it was caught in the conflicts among the Kuomintang government, the Communist Party of China, (founded 1921), which was converted into a nationalist party; local warlords, and the Empire of Japan. Most nation-building efforts were stopped during the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War / War of Resistance against Japan from 1937 to 1945, and later the widening gap between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made a coalition government impossible, causing the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, in 1946, shortly after the Japanese surrender to the Americans and the Western Allies in September 1945.
A series of political, economic and military missteps led to the KMT's defeat and its retreat to Taiwan (formerly Formosa) in 1949, where it established an authoritarian one-party state continuing under Generalissimo/President Chiang Kai-shek. This state considered itself to be the continuing sole legitimate ruler of all of China, referring to the communist government or regime as illegitimate, a so-called People's Republic of China declared in Beijing (Peking) by Mao Zedong in 1949, as mainland China, Communist China, or Red China. Although supported for many years, even decades by many nations especially with the support of the United States who established a 1954 Mutual Defense treaty, as the decades passed, since political liberalization began in the late 1960s, the PRC was able after a constant yearly campaign in the United Nations to finally get approval in 1971, to take the seat for China in the General Assembly, and more importantly, be seated as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. After recovering from this shock of rejection by its former allies and liberalization in the late 1970s from the Nationalist authoritarian government and following the death of Chiang Kai-shek, the Republic of China has transformed itself into a multiparty, representative democracy on Taiwan and given more representation to those native Taiwanese, whose ancestors predate the 1949 mainland evacuation.
427 - The massacre of Christians in Marawi, Philippines
Generally the Philippines is understood to be a country of welcome and tolerance. Sadly, however, this reputation has been damaged and continues to struggle under increasing radicalization and attacks from fundamentalist Islamist groups on Christians notably in the islands of Mindanao and Basilan. Mark Riedemann interviews Bishop Edwin dela Peña y Angot, M.S.P., head of the Marawi Prelature in Marawi City where in 2017 Muslim extremists killed more than 100, burned down the Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians, and held hostage Father Teresito Suganub, the vicar general, along with a dozen or more staff members from the cathedral.
Bishop Peña gives personal witness to how his people were captured, how Fr. Chito was freed and how he started an intiative with his people to come into dialogue with muslims, in order to work together with them against terrorism and fundamentalism.
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Duration: 29'
Date of Production: 2018
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Footage of Korean women sexually enslaved by Japanese soldiers in WWII revealed for the first time
한국인 '위안부' 증명할 영상자료 나왔다…최초 발굴
Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War Two is one unresolved issue that continues to strain relations between the two countries.
However, all these decades later,.... the Japanese government still tries to whitewash its wartime atrocities.
At long last evidence has been found that should aid Seoul's efforts to corner Tokyo into facing reality.
Lee Ji-won tells us more.
Women,... with faces full of fear,... are lined up against a wall.
A man, presumed to be a Chinese officer, talks to them.
This short 18 second video is of seven Korean women sexually enslaved by the Japanese soldiers in Yunnan province, southwest China, around the end of World War II.
It is the first-ever video footage of Korean victims that has been found.
On Wednesday, Seoul city and Professor Chung Chin-sung of Seoul National University unveiled the video from 1944,... which had been stored in the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States for over 70 years.
Previously,... footage of Chinese comfort women had been found,... but there were only pictures and documents on the Korean comfort women.
But after the professor and his research team were certain that a video on the Korean victims existed, they spent two years searching for the footage,... and they finally found what they were looking for amongst hundreds of film reels last month.
The footage was taken by an American combat photographer just after the region was reclaimed from Japan by the Chinese.
During World War II, an estimated 200-thousand women, mostly Koreans, were kidnapped and forced to become sex slaves for Japanese troops.
While an agreement between Korea and Japan was made by the previous Park Geun-hye administration in 2015,... where Japan financially compensated the victims with one billion yen, or about 8-point-9 million U.S. dollars, thousands of citizens and the surviving victims criticized and refused the deal as Tokyo claimed there was no evidence of the Japanese military forcing the enslavement of women.
But with Korea's newly elected President Moon Jae-in calling for renegotiation of the deal,... the research team says that they hope the footage will work as a tool to open up such talks.
We hope the new findings will bring the public's attention and interest on the matter,... so that when President Moon has his first bilateral talk with the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, at the G20 summit later this week, an atmosphere for renegotiation can be made.
With only 38 Korean victims still alive,... the research team stressed their determination to uncover this video evidence of Japan's sexual slavery so that there's a chance for the issue to be resolved within their lifetimes.
Lee Ji-won, Arirang News.
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China marks significance of war of resistance against Japanese aggression
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) held a press conference in Beijing on Friday to mark the significance of the September 3 Victory Day Parade. The Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was an important part of WWII, and China was its main battleground in the East, said Li Peilin, vice-president of CASS.
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《国家宝藏》 20171210 【National Treasure】 段奕宏化身“剑灵” 还原越王勾践剑真身 | CCTV综艺
《国家宝藏》 20171210 段奕宏化身“剑灵” 还原越王勾践剑真身 | CCTV综艺
本期节目主要内容:
05:03 越王勾践剑 国宝守护人:段奕宏
35:01 云梦睡虎地秦简 国宝守护人:撒贝宁
01:08:09 曾侯乙编钟 国宝守护人:王刚
本期节目中,湖北省博物馆将携越王勾践剑、云梦睡虎地秦简以及曾侯乙编钟三件国宝震撼亮相。著名演员段奕宏、王刚和主持人撒贝宁则作为“国宝守护人”,在现场演绎国家宝藏背后的“前世传奇”和“今生故事”,分享他们与国宝之间的缘分。
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Moving relics of the Palace Museum during wartime
When the Japanese Kanto Army instigated the September 18 incident, both the ROC Government and the Palace Museum were concerned with the safety of museum relics, so they planned to move them to Southern China.In 1933, a total of 19,621 cases and 72 bags of ancient Chinese relics were loaded onto relic trains at the West Train Station in Beiping, and first transported along the Ping-Han, Lun-Hai and Jin-Pu railroads to Pukou, Nanjing, then they were shipped by boat to Shanghai International Settlement along the Yangtze River.In December 1936, the relics were moved to the warehouse of Nanjing Chaotian Temple. As the Japanese advanced from Beiping southwards, the relics were transported westward via three routes.The South Route was by truck to Anshun, Guizhou Province via Changsha and Guilin.The North Route was by railroad to Baoji, Shaanxi Province, and then by truck along the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway to Emei, via Hanzhong and Chengdu.The Middle Route was by ship, upstream along the Yangtze River, to Leshan, Ba County, via Yichang, Chungking and Yibin.This process was full of difficulties and danger, and very bumpy all along the way.A few days after departure, the original place of storage was bombed by Japanese bombers.In 1944, the ROC Government was at risk of defeat along the South Western frontlines, so, after the Palace Museum held an emergency meeting, the relics stored in Anshun were moved to Sichuan Province.After victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the relics were first gathered together near Chungking, and then transported back to Nanjing Chaotian Temple, mainly by ship, but some by truck.Soon afterwards, the civil war broke out between the Nationalists and the Communists, and the relics were in jeopardy again.Members of the Executive Committee of the Museum, held an emergency meeting to discuss the evacuation of relics, and decided to move selected exquisite items to Taiwan.5,522 cases of ancient Chinese relics were shipped, in three batches, from Nanjing to Keelung, and stored in the warehouse of Taichung Sugar Factory.In 1950, the relics were moved to Beigou warehouse in Wufeng, where they were stored for more than ten years.During the 8- year War of Resistance Against Japan and the following Chinese Civil War, people from all fields of our country cooperated in moving our national treasure around, so that they were preserved, and now they continue to tell our country’s long history.
Here is how a silk shawl for Chinese President came to life
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted the shawl to Xi during their recently-concluded informal summit at Mamallapuram. “Did you see how Modi held it out for the President to appreciate it?” asks Shanmugasundaram. “They showed it on television.” The 41-year-old has been weaving since he was 17 years old. “I must have woven thousands of saris over these years,” he says. But none of them have achieved the celebrity status of the red shawl. “I wove it with another weaver E Manoj Kumar who works at the Society,” he adds.
Shanmugasundaram has got news that the shawl has reached China. “So many people across the world saw it,” he grins. “I cannot even begin to describe my happiness.” The men were racing against time to weave the shawl: “We initially wove a blue one, but the Government authorities wanted red, since the colour is present in the Chinese national flag,” he says. This sent the team into a tizzy. Besides, they wanted a different photo of Xi to be rendered. This meant the men had to start from scratch, again.
But M Dharmaraj, the designer, the man behind it all, was unperturbed. “I was sure we could deliver it,” he says. With less than 10 days at their disposal, he spent five days on designing the shawl. Depicting a human face on a silk sari has more to do with Math than aesthetics. “It’s a complex system based on numbers and counts,” Dharmaraj tells us.
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Chiang Kai-shek (; 31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975), also known as Generalissimo Chiang or Chiang Chungcheng and romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih or Jiang Jieshi, was a politician and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China until 1949 and then in exile in Taiwan. He was recognized by much of the world as the head of the legitimate government of China until the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, as well as a close ally of Sun Yat-sen's. Chiang became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT following the Canton Coup in early 1926. Having neutralized the party's left wing, Chiang then led Sun's long-postponed Northern Expedition, conquering or reaching accommodations with China's many warlords.From 1928 to 1948, Chiang served as chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China (ROC). Chiang was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement. Unable to maintain Sun's good relations with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chiang purged them in a massacre at Shanghai and repressed uprisings at Kwangtung (Canton region) and elsewhere.
At the onset of the Second Sino-Japanese War, which later became the Chinese theater of World War II, Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang kidnapped Chiang and obliged him to establish a Second United Front with the CCP. After the defeat of the Japanese, the American-sponsored Marshall Mission, an attempt to negotiate a coalition government, failed in 1946. The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the CCP led by Mao Zedong defeating the KMT and declaring the People's Republic of China in 1949. Chiang's government and army retreated to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics in a period known as the White Terror. After evacuating to Taiwan, Chiang's government continued to declare its intention to retake mainland China. Chiang ruled Taiwan securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Kuomintang until his death in 1975, just one year before Mao's death.Like Mao, Chiang is regarded as a controversial figure. Supporters credit him with playing a major part in the Allied victory of World War II and unifying the nation and a national figure of the Chinese resistance against Japan as well as his staunch anti-Soviet and anti-communist stance. Detractors and critics denounce him as a dictator at the front of an authoritarian autocracy who suppressed and purged opponents and critics and arbitrarily incarcerated those he deemed as opposing to the Kuomintang among others.