內容簡介
內容簡介 透過盧溝橋事變到韓戰，以審慎且全面的戰爭史研究，詮釋現代中國的誕生。如何詮釋20世紀中葉發生在中國的戰爭？對史家而言，這是一個相當嚴峻的挑戰。從1937年的盧溝橋事變到1953年的韓戰，要詮釋這段期間發生在中國境內外的戰爭，對作者來說，最關鍵的問題在於政治上的論述。二戰期間的團結抗日已成為中國的官方歷史與公開的紀念，但是卻掩蓋了國共之間分化的事實，藉此不斷抹去中國內戰的記憶。劍橋大學東亞研究教授Hans van de Ven認為，將對日抗戰、國共內戰及其遺緒視為一個整體，將這一連串事件，視為這段期間發生在中國內部的衝突與政治劇變的原因。中國共產黨利用抗日壯大自己，國共之間的嫌隙影響了對日抗戰，兩黨之間貌合神離的聯盟，孕育了中國共產黨解放革命的各種條件。軍事理論家克勞塞維茨由界定清楚的敵對者所建立的戰爭模式，無法套用在20世紀中葉發生在中國的戰爭。本書揭露當今中國共產黨刻意掩蓋的史實，將使本書成為經典的戰爭史研究。China’s mid-twentieth-century wars pose extraordinary interpretive challenges. The issue is not just that the Chinese fought for such a long time―from the Marco Polo Bridge Incident of July 1937 until the close of the Korean War in 1953―across such vast territory. As Hans van de Ven explains, the greatest puzzles lie in understanding China’s simultaneous external and internal wars. Much is at stake, politically, in how this story is told.Today in its official history and public commemorations, the People’s Republic asserts Chinese unity against Japan during World War II. But this overwrites the era’s stark divisions between Communists and Nationalists, increasingly erasing the civil war from memory. Van de Ven argues that the war with Japan, the civil war, and its aftermath were in fact of a piece―a singular process of conflict and political change. Reintegrating the Communist uprising with the Sino-Japanese War, he shows how the Communists took advantage of wartime to increase their appeal, how fissures between the Nationalists and Communists affected anti-Japanese resistance, and how the fractious coalition fostered conditions for revolution.In the process, the Chinese invented an influential paradigm of war, wherein the Clausewitzian model of total war between well-defined interstate enemies gave way to murky campaigns of national liberation involving diverse domestic and outside belligerents. This history disappears when the realities of China’s mid-century conflicts are stripped from public view. China at War recovers them.
