Jiang+Jieshi

Jiang Jieshi was born on Ocotber 31, 1887 in the province of Chekiang, China. He was born to a wealthy family and recieved a normal schooling. He later planned to work for the civil service, but when he went to apply, the civil service exam was suspended. Because he could not join the civil service without taking the exam, he decided to enroll in the Paoting Military Academy in 1906, located in Northern China. One year later he transfered to a military academy in Japan, where he then served in the army in 1909. He loved the fighting style, which was similar to the Spartan's style. He met some republicans in Japan and he himself became a republican, joining the revolutionary movement. In 1911, an uprising against the Manchu Dynasty erupted. Jiang Jieshi then went back home and joined the fighting, leaving the Japanese Army. When a new regime rose to power, led by Yuan Shi'k'ai, he fled back to China. In order to foil Yuan, Jiang returned to China two years later, in 1915. While back in China Jiang joined a group named the Green Gang, a secretive society that mainupulated Chinese currency. Later, in 1918 he joined the nationalist Kuomintang, where he rose in ranks and eventually rose to become military commander. In 1927, he rid China of the Chinese Communist Party. He then occupied Beijing a year later. Throughout the years of 1930-1934, he led 5 'Bandit Suppression Campaigns" against Communist-held holdout. In 1935, Jiang Jieshi took sole power in China as the chairman of the Kuomintang executive council. When Japan attacked China in 1937, he was forced to join his Communist enemy to fight the Japanese army, whom they defeated by 1945. Because he was forced to merge with the Communists, the Communists returned once again to China. Once again Jiang had to fight the Communists. He fled to Taiwan in 1947, where he set up a nationalist government. He died in Taipei, Taiwan on April 5, 1975.