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Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China By Grace C. Huang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. 442 pp. ISBN: 9780674260146 (paper).

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Chiang Kai-shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China By Grace C. Huang. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021. 442 pp. ISBN: 9780674260146 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2022

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , August 2022 , pp. 573 - 575
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1 Cohen's, Paul Speaking of History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010)Google Scholar provides a detailed account full of ambiguities: Goujian was not an unequivocal hero who suffered great humiliation in order to achieve great feats. He eventually turned into a villain worse than his enemy Fuchai, driven by his thirst for revenge.