书籍 Wuhan, 1938的封面

Wuhan, 1938

Stephen R. MacKinnon

出版时间

2008-05-20

ISBN

9780520254459

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

"Read this slim and seductively informative book and recommend it to friends who are not China specialists."—Asia Media

"MacKinnon's study of Wuhan during its service as China's wartime capital not only fills an important gap in the history of China's war with Japan, but enriches this history through an artful combination of military, political, social and cultural perspectives."—Edward McCord, author of The Power of the Gun: The Emergence of Chinese Warlordism

Description

During the spring of 1938, a flood of Chinese refugees displaced by the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) converged on the central Yangzi valley tricity complex of Wuhan. For ten remarkable months, in a highly charged atmosphere of carnage, heroism, and desperation, Wuhan held out against the Japanese in what would become a turning point in the war—and one that attracted international attention. Stephen MacKinnon for the first time tells the full story of Wuhan's defense and fall, and how the siege's aftermath led to new directions in the history of modern Chinese culture, society, and politics.

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter 1. Wuhan before the War

Chapter 2. Defending Central China, 1938: Military Leadership and Strategy

Chapter 3. The Battle for Xuzhou and the Defense of Wuhan

Chapter 4. Wuhan's Refugee Crisis

Chapter 5. Culture and the Press

Chapter 6. Mobilizing Youth

Chapter 7. Romantic Hankou: The International Dimension

Conclusion

Appendix: Wartime Wuhan: A Chronology

Notes

Glossary

Stephen R. MacKinnon is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is author of Power and Politics in Late Imperial China: Yuan Shi-Kai in Beijing and Tianhun, 1901-1908, and coauthor of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s and Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical, all published by UC Press. He is the edito...

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用户评论
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