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Chiang Ching-kuo
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6th and 7th President of Republic of China
Chiang Ching-kuo was the son of Chiang Kai-shek who served as the 6th and 7th President of the Republic of China, leading Taiwan during a significant period of its modern history. His leadership matters because he oversaw important changes in Taiwan's political and economic development during the Cold War era.
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Key facts
- Premier
- See list Hsu Ching-chung (acting) , Sun Yun-suan , Yu Kuo-hwa
- Vice president
- Hsieh Tung-min , Lee Teng-hui
- Preceded by
- Yen Chia-kan
- Succeeded by
- Lee Teng-hui
- President
- Chiang Kai-shek , Yen Chia-kan
- Vice premier
- Hsu Ching-chung
- Born
- ( 1910-04-27 ) 27 April 1910 , Fenghua , Zhejiang, China
- Died
- 13 January 1988 (1988-01-13) (aged 77), Taipei , Taiwan
- Resting place
- Touliao Mausoleum , Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Party
- Kuomintang
- Other political affiliations
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Spouse
- Faina Vakhreva ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 15 March 1935</span>"}]]}'>1935 )
- Children
- Chiang Hsiao-wen Chiang Hsiao-chang Chiang Hsiao-yen (illegitimate, disputed ) Winston Chang (illegitimate, disputed ) Chiang Hsiao-wu Chiang Hsiao-yung
- Parent s
- Chiang Kai-shek (father) , Mao Fumei (mother)
- Education
- Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
- Awards
- Order of Blue Sky and White Sun , Order of the Sacred Tripod (3rd class), Order of the Cloud and Banner (2nd class), Order of Brilliant Jade , Order of Propitious Clouds
- Allegiance
- Republic of China
- Branch
- Republic of China Army
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jiang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Place of birth
- Fenghua District
- Spouse
- Chiang Fang-liang
- Father
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Mother
- Máo Fúméi
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of the Republic of China
- Political party
- Kuomintang
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Chinese
- Religion
- Buddhism
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- 第7任總統蔣經國先生玉照.jpg
- Work location
- Ganzhou
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- Chiang Ching-kuo
- date of birth
- 1910-04-27
- date of death
- 1988-01-13
- cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- topic's main category
- Category:Chiang Ching-kuo
- allegiance
- Taiwan
- place of burial
- Touliao Mausoleum
- stepparent
- Sòng Měilíng
- candidacy in election
- 1984 Taiwan presidential election
- name in native language
- 蔣經國
- writing language
- Traditional Chinese
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Chiang Ching-kuo (/ˈtʃæŋtʃɪŋˈkwoʊ/, 27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat who served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was the party's chairman from 1975 until his death. His presidency was defined by the end of martial law in Taiwan.
Born in Fenghua, Chiang was the eldest and only biological son of President Chiang Kai-shek. He was sent as a teenager to study in the Soviet Union during the First United Front in 1925, when his father's Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party were in alliance. Before his education in the USSR, he attended school in Shanghai and Beijing, where he became interested in socialism and communism. He attended university in the USSR and spoke Russian fluently, but when the Chinese Nationalists violently broke with the Communists, Joseph Stalin sent him to work in a steel factory in the Ural Mountains. There, Chiang met and married Faina Vakhreva. With war between China and Japan imminent in 1937, Stalin sent the couple to China. During the war, Ching-kuo's father gradually came to trust him, and gave him more and more responsibilities, including administration.
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