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Chiang Kai-shek — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1887–1975 · China / Taiwan · Generalissimo

Chiang Kai-shek

Nationalist capitalism

Market order under one party.

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Governance+54
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Social−56
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The Nationalist generalissimo who fought the Communists and built an authoritarian, business-aligned state on the mainland and then Taiwan — capitalist in economy, dictatorial in form.

social

Confucian-nationalist traditionalist.

economic

Backed private enterprise and landed/business interests against communism.

governance

Ruled through an authoritarian one-party Nationalist state.

Notable for
  • Led the Kuomintang
  • Ruled wartime China, then Taiwan
  • Anti-communist Nationalist
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