All articles from: Friday, July 16th, 2010

Creating a Public Face for Posterity: The Making of Chiang Kai-shek’s Shilue Manuscripts

In the midst of war, secretaries began selecting and organizing excerpts from Chiang Kai-shek’s diary, telegrams, written reports, and speeches to form the shilüe gaoben, which might be roughly translated as “draft” or “working manuscripts.” Yet because of the Guomindang’s later exodus to Taiwan, these manuscripts remained incomplete and in different stages of draft form. [...]

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