[diefree]

My daughter had a textbook that called Chiang-Kai-shek
by another name - Jie-Shi Jiang

I always wondered why.

[LS]

Some of the “new” Chinese spelling might be behind this: Mao Tse Tung, the spelling I grew up with, is now Mo Ze Dung (more appropriate, if you ask me!)

[KarlInOhio]

My daughter had a textbook that called Chiang-Kai-shek by another name - Jie-Shi Jiang

I always wondered why.

Tawain changed their Romanization method at the beginning of the year.

I think Jie-Shi Jiang is backwards, because Jiang/Chiang is the family name and should be first in Chinese. The Jie-Shi vs. Kai-shek is a Mandarin vs. Cantonese difference.

However most of that is from the Wikipedia article on him, so take it with a grain of salt.