Chiang Kai-shek Quotes
I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
Fenby, Jonathan. Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He Lost. Free Press, 2003, p. 45.
Between 1820 and 1867, the American Colonization Society would relocate 13,000 freed American blacks to Liberia. The present-day capital of Liberia, Monrovia, is named after Monroe.
Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih and Jiang Jieshi, was a Chinese Nationalist politician, revolutionary 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 Taiwan until his death.