Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942

"Chiang Kai-shek's Views of Asia: An analysis of Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India in 1942”

蒋介石的亚洲观：1942年蒋介石访问印度之分析

Keywords : Chiang Kai-shek, diaries, India, Asia


Speaker : Professor Ruicong Duan
段瑞聪 副教授
Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan
Hoover Institution, Stanford University


Thursday, May 21, 7:00-9:00pm
Meyer Library, Room 147
Location Map: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=03-400



Working language: Chinese

Outline of the Talk

The Pacific War broke out on December 8, 1941. As a supreme commander of the Chinese Theater, Chiang Kai-shek visited India during February 5 to February 21, 1942. As we all know, during the Pacific War India was a British colony. Previous studies pointed out that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India had two main purposes: first, to discuss how to strengthen military cooperation with the Government of India; second, to adjust the relationship between the Government of India and the Indian National Congress. However, I think that Chiang Kai-shek's visit to India is closely related to his views of Asia. Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia is also closely related to that of Sun Yat-sen's. The main purpose of the presentation is to draw upon new historical materials including diaries of Chiang Kai-shek to analyze the continuity between Chiang Kai-shek’s views of Asia and that of Sun Yat-sen’s.




Bio. Of Professor Ruicong Duan

Ruicong Duan is Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University Japan. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the program in Political Science, Graduate School of Law, at the Keio University, and his B.A. from the Department of Foreign Language at Inner Mongolia University, China. He has also taught at Kyorin University, Japan and the Inner Mongolia University, China.
He is the author of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement (Keio University Press, 2006). He is the joint editor of The Sino-Japanese Relations at the Cross Road (Koyoshobo Press, 2007). Professor Duan is currently a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He research area is the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan.


Tianjue Luo and Ling Yang
ChinaRains at Stanford University