Despite a harsh life in Russia, Chiang Ching-kuo never gave up on the hope that one day he would return to China. Eventually, when the war between China and Japan was imminent in 1937, the shift in the international political climate allowed him to return to China as Stalin hoped to form an anti-Japanese alliance with ...
Chiang Ching-kuo (1910-1988) was the eldest son of Chiang Kai-shek and served two terms as President of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan from 1978 to 1988. He was a renowned political leader internationally. According to polls, more than half the people in Taiwan consider him to be the greatest president they ever had ...
Chiang Kai-shek, who led the Republic of China (ROC) first in mainland China and then in Taiwan, was a strong supporter and guardian of China’s national cultural relics. He had a long history with the Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing. As early as 1928, he was one of the first 37 trustees of the Palace ...
The Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing, China, together with the National Palace Museum in Taipei, will normally receive more than 20 million visitors in a given year. But few of them will be aware of the extraordinary story behind some of the treasures they have seen and the odyssey that took those artifacts on ...
Xu Yun (1840-1959) was a well-respected Buddhist master and is regarded as one of the most influential Buddhist teachers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Xun Yun’s first exposure to Buddhism was at his grandmother’s funeral. The ceremony was performed by monks and the serine atmosphere animated him to read Buddhist sutras and to make ...
In 1949, the communists took over Mainland China, forcing the leader of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-Shek (October 31, 1887 — April 5, 1975), also known as Chiang Chung-Cheng, to lead 600,000 military officers and civilians to Taiwan. Chiang spent 26 years of his life turning Taiwan into a stronghold for traditional Chinese culture ...
In addition to the Shilin Official Residence located in Taipei City, there were about 30 guesthouses scattered across Taiwan exclusively for Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), late president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), also known as Generalissimo Chiang, to stay during his lifetime. Many of them have since been converted into museums, literature centers, or hotels. Among ...
Located on the Yuanshan (Round Mountain圓山) and overlooking Taipei City and the Keelung River, the Grand Hotel (圓山飯店) is a splendid, eye-catching landmark full of historical significance. It is believed that the hotel was constructed in response to a suggestion by Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling), wife of Taiwan’s late president Chiang Kai-shek, to accommodate international dignities. It is also ...
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