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The Improbable Survival of Chiang Kai Shek, 1948-1949

For over seventy years, the relationship between the People’s Republic of China, founded by Mao Zedong, and The Republic of China on Taiwan, led by Chiang Kai Shek, has been regarded as one of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints. There have been “Taiwan Straits Crises” in 1954-56, 1958, and 1995-96. Drawing on his recent book, A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War and Massacre in Asia, 1945-1955, Ronald Spector explains how the Allied victory over the Japanese in China quickly evolved into a destructive Civil War and the birth of two Chinas, events whose legacies are still with us.