SHANGHAI FURY: THE SECRET HEROES OF REVOLUTIONARY CHINA
Book ID/图书代码： 00530011B44592
English Summary/英文概要： Shanghai is a city defined by war. The city and its armed struggles were central to the relationship between China and Australia from the fall of the Manchus in 1912 to the Communist victory in 1949. Yet with the notable exception of George "Chinese" Morrison, the Australian contribution has been largely neglected and no single volume covers the experiences of the many remarkable Australians caught up in the drama. Set against a backdrop of imperial splendor and abject squalor, this book examines one of the seminal periods of the 20th Century in a compellingly readable narrative that mixes personal memoir with combat action to complete a powerful trilogy on Australians at war.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 上海是經由戰爭而定義的一座城市。這座城市和它的武裝鬥爭，是自1912年滿清的沒落直至1949年共產主義的勝利以來，中國和澳洲之間極其重要的關聯。然而除了“中國”著名的喬治莫里森，澳大利亞的貢獻在很大程度上被忽視了，沒有一部記錄能承載這麼多卓越的澳大利亞人追趕歷史潮流的經歷。在反對輝煌一世的皇室和當時社會淒慘卑劣的時代背景下，這本書探討了20世紀一段萌芽狀態的時期，運用一種非常通俗敘述手法，講述了一段夾雜著個人回憶錄和很完整的一部戰爭中澳大利亞人三部曲式的戰爭序列表。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：" ...this highly readable history set chiefly in the rambunctious, international city of Shanghai between the first Opium War of 1840 and the declaration of the People’s Republic in 1949. He cleverly, and with few signs of the intricate stitching required, weaves his Australian dramatis personae into the wild story of China’s travails as it struggled to shed its senile, malfunctioning Manchu dynasty, started to modernise as a democratic republic before being invaded by atypically obnoxious Japanese, and then fell, mostly with unknowing enthusiasm, into the hands of the murderous, cynical ideologue Mao Zedong.... History, Thompson concludes, "has a way of separating the dross from the hidden gems". He has unearthed a couple of dozen in this book, a rare haul."
--Weekend Australian
About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Thompson是《ANZAC（澳新軍團）風潮》和《太平洋風潮》的作者，也是《The Big Fella》（好傢伙）的合著者。Peter Thompson is the author of ANZAC Fury and Pacific Fury, and the coauthor of The Big Fella.
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