In accordance with his father's wishes, Chiang Ching-kuo set about studying classical works such as the Analects of Confucius, the philosophy of the Song-dynasty philosophers Zhu Xi and Wang Yangming, and the family strictures of the Qing statesman Zeng Guofan. He also wrote the memoirs of his experiences in the Soviet Union.
經國先生更奉父命研讀論語、朱子，與陽明全書、曾文正公家訓等古籍，並將在蘇聯的經歷，寫下回憶錄。