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The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China is a biography by Jay Taylor of Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of China from the 1920s to his death in 1976. The book was published in 2009 by Harvard University Press and was widely reviewed. It received the 2010 Lionel Gelber Prize, awarded by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for the best non-fiction book of the year on foreign affairs.[1]
Selected reviews[edit]
- Anderson, Perry (2012). "Sino-Americana. Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Vogel, E., on China by Kissinger, H. And the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Taylor, J." London Review of Books [Online]. 34 (3): 20–22.
- Buck, David D. (2010). "Jay Taylor Finds Rehabilitating Chiang Kai-Shek's Reputation No Small Task". China Review International. 17 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1353/cri.2010.0011. JSTOR 23734344.
- Fung, Edmund S K (2010). "Jay Taylor. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China". The American Historical Review. 115 (2): 517–518. doi:10.1086/ahr.115.2.517.
- Hayford, Charles (2011). "The "Final Triumph of Chiang Kai-Shek? The Rush to Revisionism: Review of the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009" (PDF). H-Diplo Review FORUM: s.
- Tzu-chin, Huang (2016). "Embracing Mainstream International Society: Chiang Kai-Shek's Diplomatic Strategy against Japan". Chinese Studies in History. 49 (4): 199–217. doi:10.1080/00094633.2015.1214511. S2CID 159825097.
- Kapp, R. A. and G. van der Wees (2010). "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China, by Jay Taylor". Journal of Military History. 74 (1): 201–203.
- Mirsky, Jonathan (2009). "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China - Jay Taylor". The Literary Review.: 5.
- Tanner, Harold M. (2010). "A Question of Influence: Jay Taylor's the Generalissimo and American Images of Chiang Kai-Shek". The Chinese Historical Review. 17 (1): 37–42. doi:10.1179/tcr.2010.17.1.37. S2CID 144277599.
- Taylor, Jeremy E. and Grace C. Huang (2012). ""Deep Changes in Interpretive Currents"? Chiang Kai-Shek Studies in the Post-Cold War Era". The International Journal of Asian Studies. 9 (1): 99–121. doi:10.1017/S1479591411000209. S2CID 145375348.
- Thompson, Roger (2009). "Review of the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek andthe Struggle for Modern China, by Jay Taylor". Journal of Historical Biography. 6: 98–105.
- Yee, Wah Foo (2009). "Fu Bingchang, Chiang Kai-Shek and Yalta". Cold War History. 9 (3): 389–409. doi:10.1080/14682740902978995. S2CID 218578218.
References[edit]
Taylor, Jay (2009). The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-Shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674033382.
References[edit]
- ^ "The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China". The Lionel Gelber Prize - The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
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