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Chiang Kai-shek's politics of shame : leadership, legacy, and national identity in China /
"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. Huang paints a new intriguing portrait of this 20th century leader who advanced a Confucian politics of shame t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts:
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center,
2021.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
442. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. Huang paints a new intriguing portrait of this 20th 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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations, color maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1684176328 9781684176328 |