This is the first book in our country about Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Zhongzheng)—for more than 20 years he led the regime in China that was overthrown in 1949 as a result of the people’s revolution, and after that hid with the remnants of his troops on the island of Taiwan. How did he enter the Chinese revolution, first becoming one of Sun Yat-sen’s associates and then moving away from his line? How did Chiang Kai-shek’s life unfold, and what happened to his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who spent 12 years in the USSR, was a member of the Komsomol in the 1920s, and finished his path as “president” of Taiwan? The author answers these and other questions in a documentary-publicist style book that uses new materials, including archival ones.