Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China

Witness History

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The battle for China between Communists and Nationalists left Mao the victor in 1949. Defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai Shek, fled with his troops to the island of Taiwan, but he vowed to return. Hau Pei Tsun is a former chief aide to Chiang Kai Shek. Now 99 years old, he speaks to Rebecca Kesby about his memories of the controversial leader, and their fight for the soul of China.

Photo: General Chiang Kai Shek, cerca 1943 (Keystone/Getty Images)

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1:20.0	Today we head to China in the late 1940s and out of the smoldering embers of World War II
1:26.8	another conflict was emerging the Chinese Civil War two ideologies and two towering figures battling for supremacy.
1:36.2	One was the Communist leader, Maude Zaidong, the other Changcha Shek, leader of the nationalists
1:41.9	and the man who lost China.
1:44.0	I worked with Changchaisek very closely for five years.
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