biography
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Jiang Jingguo
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also spelled Chiang Ching-kuo
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pronunciation:
[jiang jinggwoh]
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| lived:
| (1918– )
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| biography:
| Taiwanese prime minister (1972–8) and president (1978–87), born in Chekiang Province, China. The son of Jiang Jieshi, he studied in the Soviet Union during the early 1930s, returning to China with a Russian wife in 1937. After the defeat of Japan in 1945 he held a number of government posts before fleeing with his father and the defeated Kuomintang forces to Taiwan in 1949. He was defence minister (1965–72) before becoming prime minister, and succeeded to the post of Party leader on his father's death in 1975. State president in 1978, in his later years he instituted a progressive programme of political liberalization, which was continued by his successor, Lee Teng-hui. |
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