Chiang Kai-Shek (1887?-1975) almost half a century was at the head of the Republic of China, and to this day it seems a mysterious person. His turbulent revolutionary, diplomatic, and personal life remained outside the bounds of ostentatiously tendentious publications. Alexander Pantsov, a well-known sinologist, doctor of historical Sciences, Professor, author of biographies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping ("ZHZL"), who received high praise both in Russia and abroad, for the first time undertook a large-scale biography of this outstanding political and military figure of the XX century. New book Pantova — based on previously inaccessible material from the archives of Russia, China, Taiwan, USA, including unpublished diaries of Chiang Kai-shek, documents from the vaults of the Hoover institution (USA), Taiwan Academy of history, the Central Executive Committee of Kuomintang, TSKKPSS, CIA — reveals the phenomenon of the mysterious leader of the Chinese nationalists. The man who transformed China from a semi-colony to a world power, but lost the power struggle in mainland China to Mao Zedong. Of undoubted interest are the diplomatic battles of Chiang Kai-shek on the verge of a detective with the heads of the leading world powers-Stalin, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and the features of the daily life of the Chinese people. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.