Chiang's two classic works were first published as a combined volume in English in 1947 (the original Chinese version of China's Destiny - by far the larger work - first appeared in 1943 selling over a million copies), examine the challenges facing the modernization (and new economic foundation) of China - from the humiliation of the unequal treaties, through to the struggles of the first half of the twentieth century, including the problem of 'establishing a philosophy of revolution and reconstruction'. The volume is annotated and introduced by Philip Jaffe with an extensive essay...