Chiang Kai-shek
Wade-Giles transliteration of Jiang Jie Shi.
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It's mostly -- I've read excerpts, not the whole book -- about the people he's met and done business with, from Madame Chiang Kai-shek (avisitor to the family home when Saltman was a kid), Tip O'Neill (his godfather) and the Kennedy boys, to Cary Grant, Bob Hope and Steve Allen, to Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson and Wayne Gretzky. The enormous jet -- with its enlarged upper fuselage that can accommodate three times the cargo by volume of a standard 747-400 freighter -- gracefully took off under rainy skies from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (formerly Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport). Indeed, Mao's outright collaboration with Japanese intelligence is also detailed, showing how he stabbed Chiang Kai-shek in the back while the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang were fighting the invaders from Japan. |
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