Chiang Kai–shek's Politics of Shame – Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity

Name: Chiang Kai–shek's Politics of Shame – Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into exile following his 1949 defeat in the Chinese civil war. As attention pivoted to Mao Zedong\u2019s communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history.\nIn Chiang Kai-shek\u2019s Politics of Shame, Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang\u2019s leadership and legacy by drawing on an extraordinary and uncensored collection of his diaries, telegrams, and speeches stitched together by his secretaries. She paints a new, intriguing portrait of this twentieth-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\u2019s response to imperialism to those of\n\nChiang Kai\u2013shek's Politics of Shame \u2013 Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China\nLeadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China\nFree UK delivery on thi;