Chiang Kai-shek and His Time: New Historical and Historiographical Perspectives

The essays collected in this book were originally presented at the international workshop Chiang Kai-shek and His Time. New Historical and His��- toriographical Perspectives, held at the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on October 18th, 2013. The workshop was jointly funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China at Taiwan (Taiwan Spotlight Project) and Ca’ Foscari University. It gathered scholars from Europe, Mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, and the scope was to offer an opportunity for debate and reflection among historians of different scholarly and intellectual backgrounds on one of the most important protagonists of twentieth century history.