...Rana Mitter Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo . By David J. Lorenzo . Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 . viii, 257 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper, ebook). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Earl Swisher The collected wartime messages of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek . Compiled by the Chinese Ministry of Information . New York : John Day , 1946 . 2 vols. xxx, 450 ; xxx, 437 p. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1947 1947 184 THE FAR EASTERN...

...Lyon Sharman Chiang Kai-shek . By H. H. Chang . New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. , 1944 . xv, 357 pp. $3.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1945 1945 BOOK REVIEWS 197 upon Christianity itself. Brief accounts of the work of large numbers...

... of the Revolution is not yet done.” For forty years since, Chiang Kai-shek has been at the very center of the Chinese political limelight. During half of this period, from 1928 to 1949, he was to a remarkable degree China itself. But like Sun, he has also failed to consummate the Kuomintang movement and the work...

... pp. China Memoirs: Chiang Kai-shek and the War Against Japan. By O W E N LATTIMORE. Compiled by FUJIKO ISONO. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1991; distributed by Columbia University Press, xi, 252 pp. 4635; $34.50. Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China. By R O B E R T P . N E W M A N . Berkeley...

...Hung-mao Tien The Early Chiang Kai-shek: A Study of His Personality and Politics, 1887–1924 . By Pichon P. Y. Loh , Columbia University Press , 1971 . 108 pp. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 658 JOURNAL...

...R. Keith Schoppa The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China . By Jay Taylor . Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2009 . xii , 722 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Jay...

...Aaron William Moore Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948 . By Harold M. Tanner . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2015 . 384 pp. ISBN: 9780253016928 (cloth, also available as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Parks M. Coble, Jr. Abstract Japanese imperialism relentlessly besieged the Nationalist government of China during the Nanking decade. Chiang Kai-shek, believing that China was not ready to confront Japanese military power and obsessed with the desire to eliminate the Communists, adopted a policy...

... and is frank about his assessments, but never vindictive. To future generations of Chinese pundits, he leaves a clear message: " . . . keep on trying, but try harder, to study China. (What else did you expect it to be (p. 458). LEONARD H. D. GORDON Purdue University Chiang Kai-shek: His Life and Times...

... involving Wang Ching-wei. This is, of course, a delicate subject.” Because of the highly controversial nature of the event, as it involved Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists, no serious and scholarly study on the subject has ever been undertaken in either Mainland China or Taiwan. Historians in the West...

...Linh D. Vu Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China . By Grace C. Huang . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2021 . 442 pp. ISBN: 9780674260146 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Donald G. Gillin Abstract This is a study of the role played by Ch'en Ch'eng, who for almost thirty years was Chiang Kai-shek's most trusted and powerful lieutenant, in the relations between Chiang's “Central” government and the so-called tsa-parh or noncentral military forces. The study...

... into conflict with Chiang Kai-shek. Loyalist NFA units that did go north routed Guomindang armies there, and partly in retaliation, Chiang Kai-shek suppressed Xiang as a “mutineer.” Yan'an leaders called the Incident an act of fratricide, and afterward they radicalized their idea of the united front—always...

... the previous summer, Chiang Kai-shek had launched his famous Northern Expedition against northern militarists and the legal government in Peking. His Communist allies had participated by arousing peasant discontent behind enemy lines and by infiltration of northern armies. It was now feared that the Communists...

... the party had lately led to victory; (3) the full and uninhibited adherence of Chiang Kai-shek and other leaders not only to the values of the traditional society but to the specific institutions in which these had been embodied; and (4) a well-documented, persistent and selfconscious effort on the part...

...Arif Dirlik Abstract On February 19, 1934, Chiang Kai-shek inaugurated the New Life Movement in Nanchang, Kiangsi, with the express goal of “revolutionizing” Chinese life. The Kuomintang leadership, holding the material and spiritual “degeneration” of the people responsible for China's continued...

...Stephen R. MacKinnon Abstract The Peiyang Army was the most significant military development in China between the Hsiang and Huai Armies which suppressed the Taiping and Nien rebellions in the 1860's and the army that Chiang Kai-shek raised and employed in the northern expedition of 1926–27...

... Jiangnan bailiwick. Although the Shanghai Green Gang bosses, in particular Du Yuesheng, were coopted by the new Guomindang State, their full integration into the regime's power structure in Shanghai did not occur until after 1932. Despite their participation in Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist coup of 1927...

... brought about vicious squabbles over Party authority among Sun Yat-sen's disciples. Political infighting, insubordination, outright treachery, even murder, and a bewildering variety of political shenanigans shook the Party's very foundations. At the end of those three years, Chiang Kai-shek emerged...