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, 2015 Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi 蔣介石)—also referred to as Chiang Chung-cheng (Jiang Zhongzheng 蔣中正)—is one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese history. He is also one of the most studied. He has been the focus of a vast array of historiography, biography, hagiography, and demonization.
Taylor, Jeremy E.
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Exporting hyperinflation: The long arm of Chiang Kai-shek [PDF]
China Economic Review, 2005 As mainland China’s inflationary spiral accelerated in 1947-1949 there was a massive outflow of funds to the island of Taiwan. The exporting of China’s hyperinflation was facilitated by the fixed, overvalued, exchange rate between the mainland Chinese currency and the Taiwanese currency that was adopted in August 1948. Empirical tests offer support for
Richard C.K. Burdekin +1 more
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Chiang Kai-shek and His Time [PDF]
, 2017 The essays collected in this book were originally presented at the international workshop <em>Chiang Kai-shek and His Time. New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives</em>, held at the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on October 18th, 2013 and jointly funded by the Ministry of Culture of the
De Giorgi, Laura, Samarani, Guido
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Lost chance for peace: The 1945 CCP-Kuomintang peace talks revisited [PDF]
, 2017 This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war.
Radchenko, Sergey
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eChiang Kai-shek’s Interpersonal Relationships: Perspectives Across the Strait\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2012 This book brings together papers and panel discussions of a conference on Chiang Kai-shek held in Taipei in January 2011 with the joint participation of historians from both the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan.
Lai, Sherman
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Chiang Kai-shek’s “secret deal” at Xian and the start of the Sino-Japanese War [PDF]
, 2015 Using newly available archives, particularly the diary and the presidential papers of Chiang Kai-shek, this article challenges the conventional interpretations of the Xian Incident (1936), in particular the widely held belief that the kidnapping of China’
C Jin +43 more
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Republican personality cults in wartime China: contradistinction and collaboration [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores the development of the Wang Jingwei personality cult during the Japanese occupation of China (1937–1945). It examines how the collaborationist Chinese state led by Wang sought to distinguish its figurehead from the person he had ...
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United States Relations with Chiang Kai-Shek, 1937-1949 [PDF]
, 1962 Chinese-American diplomatic relations for the period 1937-1949 developed into a very controversial subject. In considering this fact the questions arose as to what the American policy toward Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist government was and how that
Jones, Francis Eugene
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Cartoons and collaboration in wartime China: the mobilization of Chinese cartoonists under Japanese occupation [PDF]
, 2015 The work of Chinese cartoonists who published their illustrations in the popular press in occupied China from 1937 to 1945 has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both the occupation itself and the broader field of cartoon history.
Brook Timothy +16 more
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