CHINAS WAR WITH JAPAN 1937-1945(US TITLE: FORGOTTEN ALLY: CHINA’S WORLD WAR II, 1937-1945 )
Book ID/图书代码： 12577513B63060
English Summary/英文概要： In Rana Mitter’s tense, moving and hugely important book, the war between China and Japan - one of the most important struggles of the Second World War - at last gets the masterly history it deserves
Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the ’Marco Polo Bridge Incident’ plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity - a war which would result in many millions of deaths and completely reshape East Asia in ways which we continue to confront today.
With great vividness and narrative drive Rana Mitter’s new book draws on a huge range of new sources to recreate this terrible conflict. He writes both about the major leaders (Chiang Kaishek, Mao Zedong and Wang Jingwei) and about the ordinary people swept up by terrible times. Mitter puts at the heart of our understanding of the Second World War that it was Japan’s failure to defeat China which was the key dynamic for what happened in Asia.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 二次大戰中亞洲戰場最重要的序幕就是1937年「蘆溝橋事變」，這在當時不僅牽扯中國存亡的問題，也對現代歷史的發展有決定性的關鍵，作者認為日本野蠻的侵略其實也直接塑造中國現狀的主因，讓中國成為世界強國之一。作者對於當時關鍵領袖蔣介石、毛澤東及汪經衛有特別深入的描寫，給讀者在二戰及現代歷史上有不同的解讀觀點。
Awards/获奖情况：’A remarkable story, told with humanity and intelligence; all historians of the second world war will be in Mitter’s debt ... [he] explores this complex politics with remarkable clarity and economy ... No one could ask for a better guide than Mitter to how [the rise of modern China] began in the cauldron of the Chinese war’
- Richard Overy, Guardian
’Rana Mitter’s history of the Sino-Japanese War is not only a very important book, it also has a wonderful clarity of thought and prose which make it a pleasure to read’
- Antony Beevor
’The best study of China’s war with Japan written in any language ... comprehensive, thoroughly based on research, and totally non-partisan. Above all, the book presents a moving account of the Chinese people’s incredible suffering ... A must read for anyone interested in the origins of China’s contribution to the making of today’s world’
- Akira Iriye
About the Author/作者介绍： Rana Mitter ，牛津大學專研中國政治及歷史的教授，也是聖十字學院的研究員。著有 A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World一書。
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World. He is a regular presenter of Night Waves on Radio 3.
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