Jay Taylor

The Generalissimo's Son by Jay Taylor delves into the life of Chiang Ching-kuo, the son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Born in 1910, a time when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, experienced the constraint of bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty, Chiang Ching-kuo's life journey is as fascinating as it...

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and...