USAGE: The name "Chiang Kai-shek"

Does anyone know the true origin of this name?  It cannot be Mandarin
(the Mandarin reading is "Jiang Jieshi"), nor Cantonese either.  I have
had a suggestion that it is Gan; CKS was born in Zhejiang province,
and [ts\jaN kai s\Ek] is at least plausible in Gan phonology AFAIU.

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