Research on Chiang Kai-shek: Interpreting Chiang Kai-shek's Political Ideology: Interpreting Chiang Kai-shek's Political Ideology

Author: Tu Ping
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book focuses on analyzing the significant impact and role of Chiang Kai-shek's words and deeds on the development and evolution of modern and contemporary Chinese history. Especially, the author reveals the important influence and role of Chiang Kai-shek in promoting feudal ethics and morals from the perspective of it being the fundamental theory guiding the actions of the Kuomintang (KMT) for a long time. This effectively made the KMT, under Chiang's control, an organization with strong feudal characteristics, guided by feudal ethics and morals. The book studies Chiang Kai-shek's statements mainly from four aspects—his views on ethics, the people, the nation, and politics—based on the categories of his speeches, aiming to explore the political soul of Chiang Kai-shek through the combination of his words and deeds. Chiang Kai-shek had a ruthless and ambitious personality, a prominent power figure on the stage of modern Chinese politics. He was a man full of ambition and a desire for domination, having defeated numerous opponents on the battlefield, but ultimately defeated by the Communist Party of China. His true "genius" lay in political intrigue. His enigmatic family background, his talent as a warlord in the period of military chaos, his failure and escape in the Chinese Civil War, a man who favored "brotherhood" over national interests, a strategist who played the trick of "resigning" repeatedly to consolidate his power step by step, a self-proclaimed guardian of feudal ethics who constantly shouted "revolution"—Chiang Kai-shek became an incomprehensible enigma. He dedicated his life to unifying China under authoritarian and autocratic rule, yet ultimately ended up in a separatist state, leading to the division of the two sides and the fragmentation of the nation. He admired the Confucian political strategy of governing the state, yet was deeply infatuated with fascism. From a political perspective, comprehensively interpreting Chiang Kai-shek is a first. This book is highly pioneering and original.