Grace C. Huang《蒋介石的耻辱政治：中国的领导、遗产和民族认同》出版

Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame：

Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China

作者：Grace C. Huang

出版社：哈佛大学出版社

出版时间：08/10/2021

$55.00 • £44.95 • €49.50

ISBN 9780674260139

442 pages

6 x 9 inches

3 color photos, 11 photos, 1 illus., 4 maps

本书简介

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.

作者简介

Grace C. Huang，出生于美国威斯康星州，在康涅狄格州东部长大，先后毕业于布朗大学、芝加哥大学，获政治学博士学位。目前任圣劳伦斯大学（ St. Lawrence University）政府学教授。她的研究兴趣包括比较政治概论、中国近代政治史、蒋介石与近代中国，最近集中研究羞耻感的政治运用，以及中国的农村与城市之间的迁移。