Chiang Kai-Shek is the name of the Chinese political and military leader who led the Republic of China from the 1920s to the 1970s. The name combines his family name Chiang with the given name Kai-Shek, commonly pronounced in English as a two-part Chinese proper noun. It is frequently encountered in historical and geopolitical contexts and is pronounced with attention to non-English surname pronunciation and tone-like syllable boundaries.
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