Jay Taylor is a Research Associate at The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.
Chiang Ching-kuo, son and political heir of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was born in 1910, when Chinese women, nearly all illiterate, hobbled about on bound feet and men wore pigtails as symbols of subservience to the Manchu Dynasty. In his youth Ching-kuo was a Communist and a Trotskyite, and he lived twelve years in Russia. He died in 1988 as the leader of Taiwan, a Chinese society with a flourishing consumer economy and a budding but already wild, woolly, and open democracy. He was an actor in many of the events of the last century that shaped the history of China's struggles and achievements in the modern era: the surge of nationalism among Chinese youth, the grand appeal of Marxism-Leninism, the terrible battle against fascist Japan, and the long, destructive civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with his father and two million Nationalists. He led the brutal suppression of dissent on the island and was a major player in the cold, sometimes hot war between Communist China and America. By reacting to changing economic, social, and political dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms on the mainland, and other international events, he led Taiwan on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's son.
發表於2024-11-23
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曆史越是嚮前推進,或許越能彰顯齣蔣經國的難能可貴。南方朔說:“在所有的民意調查裏,蔣經國都是遙遙領先他人的最優領導人,這不是颱灣人對權威時代有鄉愁,而是在經過二十多年的曆史淘洗,人們終於驚悟到蔣經國當然不完美,但卻是相對最好的領導人。”他以獨裁開始...
評分之前看過颱灣版的,很喜歡。 很值得瞭解的人,很好的一本書,值得收藏。 蔣經國是一個很值得瞭解的人物。他的一生充滿瞭大的抉擇,而這些抉擇影響著近現代中國的曆史,以及兩岸的關係。 這本書比較客觀,也比較獨到地分析瞭作為曆史人物的蔣經國。對瞭解中國...
評分金正日三子金正恩(金正銀)將成為其接班人的消息已由朝鮮官方正式確認。這個消息早在金正日八月訪華時已有透漏,所以並不算突然。但是關於金正恩這個即將成為朝鮮第三代領導人的人物,此前人們瞭解的卻非常有限,甚至在朝鮮也沒有多少人能夠認得齣他。 而這位...
評分啓風(楊津濤) 劉宜良(江南)為《蔣經國傳》收尾時感嘆說,1984年的蔣經國“如仍以‘非常時期’為藉口,反對開放‘報禁’、‘黨禁’,怎能不令人懷疑他的真意所在?有生之年,則民主難期,憲政難期!”豈料一語成讖,那一年的10月15日,劉宜良在美國被暗殺。案情很快明瞭,...
評分抗戰期間在贛南成績斐然,在一個汙濁的政府中渡闢一條清潔高效的地方。多次將四大傢族的後裔拉下馬,驅逐上海黑幫勢力,挽救危局於水火。 一生為官清廉,在颱灣當太子的時候還常常去自己排隊買電影票看電影,到飯店吃飯。而且竟然有一次自己晚上開車溜達時把一個陌生人送迴傢...
圖書標籤: 傳記 蔣經國 曆史 taiwan 中華民國 English Chiang 陶涵
是非成敗轉頭空,青山依舊在,幾度夕陽紅。
評分Life is harsh for great people
評分好。
評分蔣傢兩代偉人,一脈相承,對比大陸,蔣介石在颱灣建立瞭“模範社會”,經國進一步把它進化為真正的民主。 蔣經國1988年去世,讓大部分中國人錯過的最後也是最近的一個民主契機。 馬英九繼承瞭經國的理想,颱灣現在是昏暗大陸邊上的一站自由明燈,雖然中國人的未來依舊渺茫,姑且隻能寄希望於他。
評分Well written. Easy to use power, hard to know when not to use it. 印象:父子重聚。方良過門。經國留蘇。教人劃拳。兩次婚姻。晚年解禁。另,張學良脫身後,委托索斯比賣掉價值幾百萬美元的文物,赴夏威夷養老。
The Generalissimo's Son 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載