After his defeat to Communist forces in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Republic of China and leader of the Nationalist party, fled to Taiwan, where he established a last territorial base against his sworn Communist enemy.
Jiang Lin was born in Nanjing in 1953. She joined the People’s Liberation Army at the age of 14. Between 1971 and 1982, she served as a military officer at the Fourth Military Medical University (now the Air Force Medical University) in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province.