In this task, You are given an open-domain question that can be answered based on factual information. Your task is to provide \*short\* answer (in a few words only) for the given question. The short answer can be one or more entities or it can also be boolean \*yes\* or \*no\*.

who emerged as the head of the nationalist party and ruler of china by the late 1920s
Chiang Kai-shek