Shao Yuan Chong (邵元冲; 1890-1936) Chinese traditional calligraphy, in cursive script on pale red paper laid to silk, hanging scroll. With upper panel of four script characters of themed title wrote by President Chiang Kai-Shek (蔣中正), signed, with red seals. Measurements: Scroll Width: 51 1/4" Length: 118 1/2" Painting Length: 80 1/8" Width: 37 3/4"PROVENANCE: From the heirloom collections of DR. Wu Guozhen (吳國楨; October 21, 1903-June 6, 1984) was a Chinese political figure and historian, government official who served as mayor of Hankow (1932-1938), mayor of Chung-king (1939-1941), political vice minister of foreign affairs (1943-45), mayor of Shanghai (1946-1948), and governor of Taiwan (1950-1952), and the former Chairman of Taiwan Provincial Government. He resigned in 1953 and went to the United States.
DR. Wu lived in the United States where he served as professor of Chinese history at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. During his time in the United States, he wrote various works, including a detailed analysis on Chinese culture in the context of mythology and early history in his book The Chinese Heritage.LOT NOTES: Shao Yuanchong (邵元冲; 1890-14 December 1936) was a founding member of the Xinhai Revolution and a politician of the Republic of China. He served as the vice president of the Legislative Yuan and the mayor of Hangchow and was one of the authors of the National Anthem of the Republic of China.
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887-April 5, 1975) was a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975. Also know as Chiang Chieh-shih (蔣介石), or Jiang Jieshi and Chiang Chung-cheng (蔣中正). Chiang was an influential member of the Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen. He became the Commandant of the Kuomintangs Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925. In 1926, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China's nominal leader. He served as Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948. Chiang led China in the Second Japanese War (the Chinese theater of World War II), consolidating power from the party's former regional warlords. Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun embraced in favour of an authoritarian government.
Chiang ruled the island securely as President of the Republic of China and General of the Kuomintang until hisdeath in 1975. He ruled mainland China for 22 years, and Taiwan for 30 years.