Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China

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Grace C. Huang

Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame

Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China

Grace C. Huang

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Harvard University, Asia Center
10 August 2021

Biography: historical, political & military; Asian history; Political leaders & leadership

Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs

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's communist experiment, Chiang was relegated to the dustbin of history.

In Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame, 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. 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'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 and reveal how leaders of vulnerable states can use potent cultural tools to inspire their country and contribute to an enduring national identity.

By: Grace C. Huang
Imprint: Harvard University, Asia Center
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780674260139
ISBN 10: 0674260139
Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 10 August 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Grace C. Huang is Professor of Government at St. Lawrence University.

Reviews for Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China

By elucidating Chiang from within a Chinese cultural frame, Huang makes a genuine contribution to studies of Chiang Kai-shek available in English...Informative and thought-provoking. It decisively moves away from the question of whether Chiang failed to stand up to Japan or in fact saved China--the question that has dominated studies of Chiang for nearly eight decades now. She is no doubt right that Chiang sustained and amplified a narrative of humiliation that faded under Mao but which Beijing once again finds useful to promote its agenda. --Hans van de Ven China Quarterly