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Chiang Wei-kuo (Chinese: 蔣緯國; 6 October 1916 – 22 September 1997), also known as Wego Chiang, was the adopted son of Republic of China President Chiang Kai-shek, the adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, a retired Army general, and an important figure in the Kuomintang.
The Chiang family (Chinese: 蔣中正家族／蔣介石家族) is a political family of the Republic of China with Wu Chinese background from Zhejiang province. Members of a prosperous family of salt merchants , the Chiang family held senior positions in Chinese politics first on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan after 1949 .
According to General Chiang Wei-kuo, should the invasion be successful, the Japanese might have intended to put Wang Jingwei's puppet regime in charge of Chongqing. The Japanese might also have persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to join Japan's Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and to even assist in a future Japanese offensive against the Soviet ...
Chiang was succeeded as president by Vice President Yen Chia-kan and as Kuomintang party ruler by his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who retired Chiang Kai-shek's title of Director-General and instead assumed the position of chairman. Yen's presidency was interim; Chiang Ching-kuo, who was the Premier, became president after the end of Yen's term three ...
The military guard of honour and the band of the Ministry of National Defense then followed behind the hearse, with a detachment of officers carrying each of Chiang Kai-Shek's medals. Directly behind the hearse walked Soong Mei-Ling, supported by Chiang Ching-kuo and Chiang Wei-kuo, with attending dignitaries following behind them. [7]
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Chiang Kai-shek founded the Blue Shirts in 1932. [5]: 64 Its leaders were young officers from the Nationalist army.[5]: 64 Although in its early stage the society's most important members came from the Whampoa Military Academy, and constituted elements of the KMT's Whampoa Clique, by the 1930s its influence extended into the military and political spheres, and had influence upon China's ...
Chiang Wei-kuo (originally from Tokyo) Hiro Saga – wife of Prince Pujie, brother of the Emperor Puyi (originally from Tokyo) Huisheng and Husheng – half-Japanese princesses of the Qing ruling family; Jiang Ying – renowned opera singer and music educator; Koxinga – Ming dynasty general