The characters Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, and Wang Jingwei formed the triumvirate leadership established at the onset of the 20th century, that would forever set China on a transformational path towards modernity and further establish its stature in the international community as a modernized progressive superpower. Yet, the establishment of China today as an economic, geographic, and political powerhouse was not a sudden formative moment in history that led to China’s rapid development. In fact, that process that would lead to China, as it is today, was formed from the struggles of these great thinkers through countless internal and external battles for individual prestige, land, and ideology. Foundational to Chiang, Mao, and Wang individual
