Taiwan



Chiang Ching-kuo
蔣經國
(1910 - 1988)

Chiang Ching-kuo was a Taiwanese politician, who 
served as President of the Republic of China from
 1978 until his death in 1988. 
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The eldest son of former president Chiang Kai-shek,
 after his father's death in 1975 he took leadership of
 the Nationalist Party as chairman, and was elected 
President in 1978 and again in 1984.

Chiang Ching-kuo died in Taipei in 1988, aged 77, 
from heart failure and hemorrhage.