出版社: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
副标题: China’s World War II, 1937-1945
出版年: 2013-9-10
页数: 464
定价: USD 30.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780618894253
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, r...
The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.
Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.
Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
RANA MITTER is a professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Oxford and the author of several books including A Bitter Revolution. He is a regular contributor to British television and radio. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, the Guardian, and elsewhere.
目录 · · · · · ·
Dramatis Personaexi
Pronunciation Guidexiii
Prologue: City on Fire1
Part I: The Path to War25
1. As Close as Lips and Teeth: China’s Fall, Japan’s Rise27
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Dramatis Personaexi
Pronunciation Guidexiii
Prologue: City on Fire1
Part I: The Path to War25
1. As Close as Lips and Teeth: China’s Fall, Japan’s Rise27
2. A New Revolution43
3. The Path to Confrontation56
Part II: Disaster77
4. Thirty-seven Days in Summer: The Outbreak of War79
5. The Battle for Shanghai98
6. Refugees and Resistance109
7. Massacre at Nanjing124
8. The Battle of Taierzhuang145
9. The Deadly River157
Part III: Resisting Alone171
10. “A sort of wartime normal”173
11. Flight into the Unknown197
12. The Road to Pearl Harbor211
Part IV: The Poisoned Alliance237
13. Destination Burma239
14. Hunger in Henan263
15. States of Terror280
16. Conference at Cairo296
17. One War, Two Fronts315
18. Showdown with Stilwell335
19. Unexpected Victory345
Epilogue: The Enduring War365
Notes 380
Further Reading429
Acknowledgments437
Photo Credits439
Index440
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抗战:被遗忘的、被误解的、被忽略的
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抗战,正在“重新发现历史”
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0 有用 余草 2022-05-13 02:10:26
对历史学生来说多是老生常谈了,做个普及读物还不错。做1937到1945的anglophone scholarship还是环境、医疗、科学技术的看着比较有新意,不会翻来覆去蒋介石毛泽东汪精卫。
0 有用 monomania 2015-05-18 11:10:52
A history that has virtually gone unwritten until now.
1 有用 一一 2018-10-25 23:32:34
整本书像超市里卖得速冻包子,表面很软很弹很香,但吃起来有毒啊!呈现了历史的复杂性值得推荐,但大体的见解仍然是极其欧洲中心的、精英权贵式的,作者时不时的在给日本洗地。
0 有用 gl 2020-04-30 22:50:55
有声书和实体书一起看完的,读过之后才发现以前我对抗战的历史了解的太片面太皮毛,好书!
0 有用 dddddd 2020-05-23 08:07:10
The more real history I knew did not necessarily undermine my confidence on our system.
0 有用 噗宝辩证法 2024-04-26 07:26:58 浙江
眼光相当毒辣……是的我是在说另一本没收录的
0 有用 SRI 2023-01-07 22:55:28 新加坡
history is written by victors. Further reading China India Burma theatre, 中国远征军,Joseph Warren Stilwell , the dike, Subhas Chandra Bose,
0 有用 梓瞻 2022-07-29 13:25:00
History could be read in details. 历史是具体的。
0 有用 余草 2022-05-13 02:10:26
对历史学生来说多是老生常谈了,做个普及读物还不错。做1937到1945的anglophone scholarship还是环境、医疗、科学技术的看着比较有新意,不会翻来覆去蒋介石毛泽东汪精卫。
0 有用 Eric 2021-01-05 21:01:10
新中国 联合战线