Huang Tzu-chin, 2011, Chiang Kai-shek: Between Friend and Foe, 248 pages, Tokyo: Takeda Random House Japan Co., Ltd.

This book begins by describing how Chiang Kai-shek’s experiences studying in Japan during his youth shaped his personality and created an everlasting bond with that nation. In his later years, as a disciple of “the ‘greater-Asia’ doctrine” that Sun Yat-sen had advocated, Chiang expected Japan to be sincere in its relations with China and mutually support Asia’s overall development. However, experiences ranging from the Northern Expedition to the Japanese invasion marked a process that turned relations between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan from friendship to enmity and finally war.