CLASH OF EMPIRES IN SOUTH CHINA: THE ALLIED NATIONS’ PROXY WAR WITH JAPAN, 1935-1941
Book ID/图书代码： 13585014B72067
English Summary/英文概要： Japan’s invasion of China in 1937 saw most major campaigns north of the Yangtze River, where Chinese industry was concentrated. The southern theater proved a more difficult challenge for Japan because of its enormous size, diverse terrain, and poor infrastructure, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek made a formidable stand that produced a veritable quagmire for a superior opponent-a stalemate much desired by the Allied nations.
In the first book to cover this southern theater in detail, David Macri closely examines strategic decisions, campaigns, and operations and shows how they affected Allied grand strategy. Drawing on documents of U.S. and British officials, he reveals for the first time how the Sino-Japanese War served as a "proxy war" for the Allies: by keeping Japan’s military resources focused on southern China, they hoped to keep the enemy bogged down in a war of attrition that would prevent them from breaching British and Soviet territory.
While the most immediate concern was preserving Siberia and its vast resources from invasion, Macri identifies Hong Kong as the keystone in that proxy war-vital in sustaining Chinese resistance against Japan as it provided the logistical interface between the outside world and battles in Hunan and Kwangtung provinces; a situation that emerged because of its vital rail connection to the city of Changsha. He describes the development of Anglo-Japanese low-intensity conflict at Hong Kong; he then explains the geopolitical significance of Hong Kong and southern China for the period following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Opening a new window on this rarely studied theater, Macri underscores China’s symbolic importance for the Allies, depicting them as unequal partners who fought the Japanese for entirely different reasons-China for restoration of its national sovereignty, the Allies to keep the Japanese preoccupied. And by aiding China’s wartime efforts, the Allies further hoped to undermine Japanese propaganda designed to expel Western powers from its Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
As Macri shows, Hong Kong was not just a sleepy British Colonial outpost on the fringes of the empire but an essential logistical component of the war, and to fully understand broader events Hong Kong must be viewed together with southern China as a single military zone. His account of that forgotten fight is a pioneering work that provides new insight into the origins of the Pacific War.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1937年日本侵略中国时注意到中国产业集中的长江以北的最主要活动。南方由于其巨大的规模，不同的地形和破旧的基础设施是日本更困难的挑战，但蒋介石建立了强大的根据地，为优越的对手产生了一个名符其实的泥潭——一个联合国渴望得到的僵局。
在这本第一次详细探讨南方战区的书中，戴维•马克里进一步探讨了战略决策，行动和指挥，并展示了它们是如何影响联盟的大战略的。借鉴美国和英国官员的文件，他第一次揭示了甲午战争如何作为盟友的“傀儡战争”：通过保持日本的军事资源集中在华南，他们希望能使敌人陷入一场消耗战好防止他们攻破英国和前苏联的领土。
而当下最关注的是保护西伯利亚和入侵其庞大的资源，马克里确定香港是这场傀儡战争的重点——它为对外战争与湖南和广东省之间提供后勤接口，对中国的抗日至关重要；而且它出现了重要的通往长沙市的铁路。他描述了英日在香港的低强度冲突的发展；然后他解释了香港和华南在德国入侵苏联之后的一段时间里的地缘政治意义。
马克里打开了这个很少研究的战区的一个新窗口，强调了中国对盟友而言的象征意义，将中国描绘成因完全不同的原因和日本对战的不平等伙伴——中国是为了其国家主权的恢复，盟友是想侵占日本。通过帮助中国的战争，盟军希望削弱日本关于 从大东亚共荣圈驱逐西方列强的宗旨。
像马克里展示的那样，香港不只是帝国边缘的一个宁静的英国殖民地，而且还是战争重要的后勤部分，并且为了充分了解更广泛的事件，香港必须与华南一起作为一个单一的军事区。他对那场被遗忘的战争的解释是一个开创性的工作，为 太平洋战争的起源提供了新的洞察。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 戴维•马克里曾在加拿大皇家军团服役。他于2011年在香港大学完成了他的博士学位，然后作为博士后研究员与橡树岭科学与教育学院以及夏威夷的珍珠港西肯联合基地的联合战俘/失踪会计命令一起做研究。他写了两本书分别是《中国南部的帝国冲突》和《来自山上的遗产：圣约翰大学的早期》，马克里目前是香港圣约翰学院的高级研究员。
David Macri previously served in the Royal Canadian Regiment. He completed his PhD at the University of Hong Kong in 2011 and continued as a postdoctoral research fellow with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. The author of two books, Clash of Empires in South China, and Legacy from the Hill: the Early Years of St. John’s College, Macri is currently a Senior Research Fellow at St. John’s College in Hong Kong.
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