After helping to overthrow two successive governments, he briefly withdrew from politics and devoted himself to a group of smalltime white collar criminals known as the Green Gang during the mid-1910s. He converted to Christianity in 1930 under the influence of his wife's family, the Soongs, but four years later he began the New Life Movement, a neo-Confucian state cult. He had spent two years in the Japanese army as a youth, and he later could be convinced to resist the
After helping to overthrow two successive governments, he briefly withdrew from politics and devoted himself to a group of smalltime white collar criminals known as the Green Gang during the mid-1910s. He converted to Christianity in 1930 under the influence of his wife's family, the Soongs, but four years later he began the New Life Movement, a neo-Confucian state cult. He had spent two years in the Japanese army as a youth, and he later could be convinced to resist the Japanese occupation only after being  kidnapped in the Xian incident. This Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army succeeded Sun Yat Sen as the leader of the Kuomingtang, and he later became the first president of Taiwan. FTP, name this leader of the Nationalist forces which opposed Mao Zedong's Communists in the Chinese civil war.
After helping to overthrow two successive governments, he briefly withdrew from politics and devoted himself to a group of smalltime white collar criminals known as the Green Gang during the mid-1910s.
Chiang Kai-Shek or Jiang Jieshi