一本书是著者将迄今为止关于蒋介石与新生活运动的研究汇集而成的博士论文。新生活运动是一场大众运动,其时间跨度和规模在中国现代史上均属罕见。可是,正如著者在本书中所言,以往的大多研究,或者停留在概说层面,或者仅仅探讨该运动的某一特定时期的特定侧面。将这个运动的整体全面地纳入视野的系统性研究,本书尚属首次。评者在迄今为止的研究中提及新生活运动时,总是将该书著者的论文视为首先参照的研究,从中获益匪浅。现在,这些论文收集成书出版,让我们在参考时更加便 A book is a Ph.D. dissertation that brings together the studies of Chiang Kai-shek and the New Life Movement to date. The new life movement is a mass movement whose time span and scale are rare in the modern history of China. However, as the author puts it in this book, most of the previous studies have either stayed at the synoptic level or have only looked at certain aspects of the movement for a particular period. This book is the first in a systematic study to include the entire body of this movement in its entirety. Judges have benefited greatly from the study of the book authors as a first-referenced study when referring to the New Life Campaign in a study so far. Now that these papers are collected and published, it is even easier for us to reference them