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“DEEP CHANGES IN INTERPRETIVE CURRENTS”? CHIANG KAI-SHEK STUDIES IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2012

Jeremy E. Taylor  and
Grace C. Huang
Jeremy E. Taylor
Affiliation:
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield (Taylor)and Department of Government, St. Lawrence University (Huang). E-mail jeremy.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk; ghuang@stlawu.edu
Grace C. Huang
Affiliation:
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield (Taylor)and Department of Government, St. Lawrence University (Huang). E-mail jeremy.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk; ghuang@stlawu.edu
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Abstract

This essay explores the nature of the changing scholarship on Chiang Kai-shek, reviewing some of the established assessments which dominated writing about Chiang for much of the latter half of the twentieth century, but contrasting these with new assessments which are now emerging in both Chinese- and English-language scholarship. The authors examine the ways in which new access to the Chiang Kai-shek diaries, a changing cross-Strait relationship and new attempts to rehabilitate the Republican past in the People's Republic of China have all had major ramifications for scholarship on Chiang. They tease out some of the exciting new threads that such scholarship is leading to, but also ask questions about the limitations and shortcomings of some of the approaches that are now dominant in the field.

Keywords

Chiang Kai-shekmodern Chinese historyRepublican ChinahistoriographyTaiwanKuomintangGuomindang
Type
State of the Field
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International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 99 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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