The Chinese People at War-轻识

The Chinese peoples' experience of war during the Second World War, as it is known in the West, was one of suffering and stoicism in the face of dreadful conditions. China's War of Resistance began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion and ended in 1945 after eight long years. Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's war and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. Her focus is on families torn apart, men, women, and children left homeless and struck down by disease and famine. It is also a story of courage and survival. By 1945, the fabric of China's society had been utterly transformed, and entirely new social categories had emerged. As the author suggests in a new interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949.

作者簡介

戴安娜‧拉里（Diana Lary）

加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學歷史系榮退教授。她以數十年的時間投入中國近現代史研究，在此領域上有豐富的教學經歷。著有：《中國政壇上的桂系》（Region and Nation: The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics, 1925-1937）、《社會史觀下的中國內戰》（China’s Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949）、《中國共和政體史》（The China’s Republi）等等多部專書，為重要的民國史專家。

譯者簡介

廖彥博

國立政治大學歷史系碩士，美國維吉尼亞大學歷史系博士班。曾經參與國史館《二二八事件辭典》條目撰寫、《蔣夫人宋美齡女士行誼口述訪談錄》撰稿，現從事著述、翻譯、近代史紀錄片及講座策畫。

著有《三國和你想的不一樣...

作者簡介

戴安娜‧拉里（Diana Lary）

譯者簡介

廖彥博

著有《三國和你想的不一樣》、《蔣氏家族生活祕史》、《個人旅行：西雅圖》、《愛新覺羅．玄燁：抹粉的聖君》、《一本就懂中國史》、《止痛療傷：白崇禧將軍與二二八》（與白先勇合著）等；譯有《大清帝國的衰亡》、《中國將稱霸21世紀嗎？》、《謊言的年代：薩拉馬戈雜文集》、《漫遊中古英格蘭》等書。