Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame : : Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China / / Grace C. Huang.

• Superior document: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021
• VerfasserIn: Huang, Grace C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Harvard University Asia Center,, [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021; 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China; Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Drafting Chiang's Narrative in the Shilüe /; Enduring Humiliation in Jinan /; Diversifying His Uses of Chi /; The New Life Movement in Context /; Chi and Leaders of Republican China /; Chi and Satyagraha : Chiang, Gandhi, and the Imperial Powers /; The Legacy of Chiang's Chi Narrative /; Timelines for China, Taiwan, and India /; Notes /; Glossary of Chinese Characters /; Bibliography /; Index /; Harvard East Asian Monographs /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1684176328
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Grace C. Huang.

"Reconsiders Chiang's leadership and legacy by drawing on an extraordinary and uncensored collection of his diaries, telegrams, and speeches stitched together by his secretaries. Huang paints a new intriguing portrait of this 20th century leader who advanced a Confucian politics of shame to confront Japanese incursion into China and urge unity among his people. In also comparing Chiang's response to imperialism to those of Mao, Yuan Shikai, and Mahatma Gandhi, Huang widens the implications of her findings to explore alternatives to Western expressions of nationalism and modernity"--