Chiang Kai-Shek's Diary Revealed

This book collects more than 1,000 entries in Chiang Kai-shek's diaries from 1915 to 1949. After careful and in-depth research and compilation by the author, he examines, annotates and analyzes each entry. The content covers many aspects such as party affairs, military, administration, diplomacy and family affairs. Diaries, as a true record of personal psychology, personality, behavior, and thoughts, have always been regarded as first-hand information for the study of historical figures. Chiang Kai-shek was an extremely important and complex figure in modern Chinese history. For a long time, Chiang Kai-shek's diaries have attracted much attention from historians and readers but are not available. In the process of "revealing the secrets" of the diaries, this book cites relevant telegrams, letters, orders, speeches, conversation records and other precious information, many of which are rare historical archives disclosed for the first time. Therefore, "Chiang Kai-shek's Diary Revealed" not only has important historical value, but also has enlightening research value. At the beginning of 2006, the media reported that the manuscript of Chiang Kai-shek's diary was handed over to the Hoover Institution in the United States by his grandson-in-law Chiang Fang Zhiyi for temporary custody, and that Chiang Kai-shek's diary from 1917 to 1931 was made available (the diary from 1924 was missing in the middle). However, for the majority of domestic readers, it was still a mirror image and they could only look back and sigh.