The Generalissimo

Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

Jay Taylor

    • List of Maps
    • Acknowledgments
    • Note on Romanization
    • Prologue

      • I. Revolution

    1. A Neo-Confucian Youth
    2. The Northern Expedition and Civil War
    3. The Nanking Decade

      II. War of Resistance

    1. The Long War Begins
    2. Chiang and His American Allies
    3. The China Theater
    4. Yalta, Manchuria, and Postwar Strategy

      III. Civil War

    1. Chimera of Victory
    2. The Great Failure

      IV. The Island

    1. Streams in the Desert
    2. Managing the Protector
    3. Shifting Dynamics
    4. Nixon and the Last Years
    • Epilogue
    • Notes
    • Index
  • Cover: The Generalissimo
  • A photo of the author

Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.