Moreover, as a young person he had received a classical Chinese education from a Confucian scholar from Ilan, Chang Mao-tsai, as a result of which Chiang had a profound emotional attachment to the Chinese nation and a strong sense of Chinese cultural identity.
由於幼年受教於宜蘭宿儒張茂才的漢文教育，被老師國學素養的薰陶所致，蔣渭水有著濃厚的漢民族情感和文化認同。