Chapter 2 Preface One (Wang Rongzu)

Li Ao and I co-wrote it, which is both accidental and inevitable. Li Ao's first biographical work in his early years was "Hu Shi's Commentary Biography". Originally planned to be ten volumes, only one volume was published.After I finished writing the manuscript of "Guo Songtao and Daoxian Tongguang Era", I didn't want to write any more biographies.Is it not a coincidence that both of them don't want to, but join hands to be Feng's wife together? However, there is an inevitability behind the accident, like an arrow on the string, it has to be launched.Everyone in the world knows that Li Ao was an "dissident" of the Chiang family in Taiwan's heyday, so he was victimized by white terror and imprisoned, and naturally hated Chiang to the bone.However, Li's hatred of Jiang is different from Jiang's hatred of communism.Jiang's father and son hated the Communist Party. Not only did they refrain from talking about it, but they also banned "bandit books" and did not allow others to read, think about, or talk about it.While Li Ao hated Chiang Kai-shek, he read through the forty volumes of "The Complete Works of President Chiang's Speeches" in prison, and criticized them closely, and the labels are still there.After he was released from prison, he searched more extensively for relevant documents, not letting go of a single sentence, and collected all the chapters about Chiang Kai-shek in various cultural and historical materials published in mainland China.It is completely an attitude of knowing yourself and the enemy, and winning all battles.

Li Ao used one person against one party. There is no second in Taiwan. His courage is already commendable. Of course, he cannot be expected to overthrow the Chiang regime with words.However, the law of nature invited Jiang and his son away, ending a dynasty.The era when Li Ao criticized Jiang on the edge of a razor is gone forever. Apart from the sense of victory, there is no regret that he did not need to criticize Jiang.But while regretting, I found that the willows planted unintentionally became Yin.The Unintentional Willow is a large amount of research results accumulated for the purpose of criticizing Chiang. His "knowing the enemy" skill has already made him an "academic authority" in the study of Chiang Kai-shek. His understanding of Chiang has reached the level of microscope observation. In Li Ao's research, Chiang Kai-shek was naked and his hair was raised.If this kind of "achievement" disappears with the wind along with the "dynasties", it will be an academic loss.I took the initiative to propose to Li Ao, why not combine these achievements and write a critical biography, which can be said to be invaluable.Li Ao thinks so, but after the bloody battle against Xuanhuang, he felt quite tired, and he was unwilling to endure the "difficulty" alone. If he asked me to be his "comrade in arms", since I suggested it first, how could I run away? After brewing, we finally started writing in March of 1994, and by September of the same year, we had written a first draft of about 400,000 words.

We wrote it together very smoothly. After the end of the dynasty, I felt a great feeling of revising history at a time.When we have different opinions, we should make judgments and conclusions based on historical materials and evidence.Although we are far apart by the ocean (Li Ao lives on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, and I live on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean), but due to the convenience of modern telephone and telex communication, we are indeed close to each other.When the timing changed from 1994 to 1995, I flew back to Taipei again, and worked side by side day and night in Li Ao's "Jinlan Building", making the final additions and finalizing the draft.When we went out for a walk from the "pile of old papers" to breathe the not-so-fresh air, and when we tasted really delicious food for lunch and dinner, we each played the role of "devil's defender" and tried to defend Jiang, but the results were not good. Ideally, we have no choice but to seek truth from facts, imitate Nan Dong's pen, and tell the story directly.Although Chiang Kai-shek repeatedly wanted to use his power to obliterate history, he even wanted to remove Chen Jieru, who was called Mrs. Jiang's wife by Whampoa students, from history and become a "non-person". Li Wen" various means to confuse future generations.However, Skynet is full of details, and no matter how anyone can tamper with history for a while, it will be difficult for anyone to succeed in the long run. After all, there will be someone who "writes like him".

Li Ao publicly declared that this biography was written by Wang, and he only provided information.This is the humility of Li Ao, who has never been humble, to his old friend and good friend.It is not difficult for interested readers to see the majestic momentum and profound connotation from the white mountains and black waters between the lines in black and white.The so-called "handwriting" is actually "successful drafting", because the two of us have different styles.Li Ao said that I "lost gracefully", and I said he "lost wantonly". For the benefit of readers, between two "losses", one must seek a "gain", that's all.In fact, any manuscript published by a reputable western publishing house must go through one of the "copy editors" (copy editor).Li Ao is most jealous of others changing his text, but he asks me to "follow the draft", and see his special "care" and "generosity" to his old friend and good friend.

We know that this book must have its flaws, shortcomings, and omissions, but we are confident that, in terms of historical truth, it must be higher than all published Jiang biographies and have its own characteristics.In layman's terms, Chiang Kai-shek's true colors have never been shown in such a comprehensive way.We call it "commentary biography", which not only has a critical eye on the subject, but also strives for completeness of historical materials, detailed textual research, smooth explanation and clear narrative.The whole book is divided into twelve chapters, in order of time, and each chapter is divided into several sections, focusing on special topics.We would like to dedicate this book to the Chinese sons and daughters in the next century, so that after generations change, they will still be able to know who they are and what they are doing.Chiang Kai-shek once engraved the four characters "Don't forget in Ju" on the huge stone of Taiwu Mountain in Kinmen. In fact, when he carved the stone, people were still in Ju. I don't know how to forget the law?The publication of this book coincides with the 20th year that Chiang Kai-shek became a "ghost". The word "ghost" in Ningbo has the same pronunciation as "Ju".

Written in Berburg, Victoria on the morning of January 20, 1995