The GeneralissimoOne of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self satisfied, anti modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai shek, an autocratic, larger than life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil