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Jay Taylor (December 4, 1931 – March 3, 2022) was a former U.S. foreign service officer, academic, documentarian, and writer. He was best known for writing The Generalissimo, a biography of Chiang Kai-Shek which won the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English non-fiction book on Foreign Policy in 2010.
Jay Taylor has 20 books on Goodreads with 3486 ratings. Jay Taylor’s most popular book is The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern ...
Apr 15, 2009 · Jay Taylor shows a man who was exceedingly ruthless and temperamental but who was also courageous and conscientious in matters of state. Revealing fascinating aspects of Chiang’s life, Taylor provides penetrating insight into the dynamics of the past that lie behind the struggle for modernity of mainland China and its relationship with Taiwan.
Jay Taylor’s new biography, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China, challenges the catechism on which generations of Americans have been weaned. Marshaling archival materials made newly available to researchers, including about four decades’ worth of Chiang’s daily diaries and documents from the Soviet era ...
Jay Taylor is the author of The Generalissimo (4.15 avg rating, 423 ratings, 57 reviews, published 2009), The Generalissimo's Son (4.48 avg rating, 83 ra...
Apr 30, 2011 · Jay Taylor spent many years as a Foreign Affair Officer working in both mainland China and Taiwan, and did meet Chiang in person, through five years extensive research, he is the right person who is able to write a extraordinary book about such contradictory figure in China’s history.
This book is noteworthy for the way in which Taylor portrays Chiang Kai-shek as a faithful disciple of Sun Yat-sen, who dedicated his life to the transformation of China into a modernised nation. For Taylor, Chiang spent his whole life attempting to achieve the same goal, i.e. the modernisation of China.
