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Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China by Timothy Brook (書名亂取)秩序的淪陷:抗戰初期的江南五城

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《秩序的淪陷》中文書名亂取,因為此書談的是:中國抗戰時期淪陷區與敵人日本佔領政府當局妥協,為其服務的地方頭面人物,原書名直譯為《合作:中國戰時的日本代理人和地方頭面人物》。國共多以"漢奸"、"通敵者",甚至於叛國者目之,國共等都竭力避免觸及、不談本書的主題,即,究竟淪陷區與敵人日本佔領政府當局妥協,為其服務的地方頭面人物的動機、其作為的道德、利益、人道等考量如何,後果如何.......。
英文作者給我們許多不同的視野和思考問題,尤其是結論。譬如說,南京的"漢奸們"盡力避免日方濫殺無辜,讓守軍從群眾暴露、為日本人找女人......;崇明島游擊隊炸一輛火車向日軍示威,卻殃及周圍10村莊為日軍血洗......



秩序的淪陷:抗戰初期的江南五城
    Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
    Book by Timothy Brook
    4.4/5·Goodreads
    Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China is a history book which investigates collaboration between the Chinese elites and Japanese, following the attack on the Chinese city of ... Wikipedia
    GenreHistory

作者: (加)卜正民
出版社:商務印書館

出版日期:2015/

內容簡介

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.
Japan’s attack on Shanghai in August 1937 led to the occupation of the Yangtze Delta. In spite of the legendary violence of the assault, Chinese elites throughout the delta came forward to work with the conquerors. Using archives on both sides of the conflict, Brook reconstructs the process of collaboration from Shanghai to Nanking. Collaboration proved to be politically unstable and morally awkward for both sides, provoking tensions that undercut the authority of the occupation state and undermined Japan’s long-term prospects for occupying China.
This groundbreaking study mirrors the more familiar stories of European collaboration with the Nazis, showing how the Chinese were deeply troubled by their unavoidable cooperation with the occupiers. The comparison provides a point of entry into the difficult but necessary discussion about this long-ignored aspect of the war in the Pacific.


《秩序的淪陷》為著名漢學家卜正民教授近著,關注的是抗戰初期的社會與人。

作者選取江南五城(嘉定、鎮江、南京、上海、崇明)為例,描述了日軍殘暴占領城市、試圖重建基層機構的過程,並分析了地方頭面人物與日偽政府的關系交織。「這里有通敵,有抵抗,但兩者之外的其他行為要多得多。」借助對這種模糊行為的分析,作者考察了戰爭時期城市秩序的維持,以及生活其間的個人的心態、處境與選擇,以求揭示一個復雜的戰時社會。

卜正民,著名漢學家,歷任多倫多大學、斯坦福大學等校教授,英國牛津大學邵氏漢學教授,現為加拿大英屬哥倫比亞大學聖約翰學院歷史系教授。卜正民學術視野廣闊,主要從事亞洲歷史和文化的研究,研究領域涉及明代社會和文化史、「二戰」時期日本在中國的占領等。代表著作有:《為權力祈禱:佛教與晚明中國士紳社會的形成》、《縱樂的困惑:明代的商業與文化》、《明代的國家與社會》、《維梅爾的帽子:從一幅畫看全球化貿易的興起》、《殺千刀:中西視野下的凌遲處死》等。

目錄

致謝
略語表
第一章  關於「合作」
第二章  計划
第三章  外觀:嘉定
第四章  成本:鎮江
第五章  共謀:南京
第六章  競爭:上海
第七章  抵抗:崇明
第八章   組建占領政權
結論:消失的四類歷史真相
注釋
參考文獻
索引
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations Used in the Text
  • 1. Considering Collaboration
  • 2. The Plan
  • 3. Appearances / Jiading
  • 4. Costs / Zhenjiang
  • 5. Complicities / Nanjing
  • 6. Rivalries / Shanghai
  • 7. Resistance / Chongming
  • 8. Assembling the Occupation State
  • Conclusion: Four Ways Truth Disappears with History
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index



Brook has with great care taken up the sensitive topic of Chinese collaboration with the Japanese conquerors during the Sino–Japanese War—a subject that the Chinese are still hesitant to address. His study concentrates on local collaboration in the Yangtze delta region in Shanghai’s hinterland, avoiding the more shocking cases of puppet regimes in north and northeast China and the ’national government’ in Nanjing. China, unlike France after World War II, had no chance to work out the moral and psychological issues related to collaboration, and even today outrage at Japanese atrocities obscures questions of Chinese collaboration. Brook builds his thoughtful analysis on Japanese archival documents, Chinese memoirs, and interviews. By concentrating on the local level, he makes vivid the personal relationships between Chinese and Japanese administrators as they dealt with day-to-day problems. He concludes that there was no shortage of Chinese elites ready to work for the Japanese, but that the relationship remained complicated and tense.—Lucian Pye, Foreign Affairs
Timothy Brook has produced a superb book about the vexed problem of collaboration… Of all the studies of collaboration—or those that touch on it—in East Asian studies, Brook’s provides us with the most interesting perspective. One of the book’s great strengths is the clear and methodical way in which it proceeds through its historical investigation. Brook hews closely to his principal sources and texts, which he both utilizes and interrogates. He cross-examines Chinese and Japanese, collaborative and denunciatory, occupier and resistor texts, often with regard to the same phenomenon, if not the same event or person. Yet Brook is sufficiently a stylist that this procedure rarely lapses into a dry, judicial mode of inquiry. At the same time, the conclusions he draws feel remarkably faithful to his methodology.—Prasenjit Duara, The China Journal
[A] finely researched and subtly nuanced study of collaboration in the Lower Yangtze Valley during the initial year of the Sino–Japanese War of 1937–45… What is remarkable is that Professor Brook has uncovered from both the Chinese and Japanese sides archival and memoir literature of a quality that allows him to present case studies that illuminate the ambiguities and complexities of collaboration, not to mention the essential mechanics of how it was sought and arranged… This work is not only a major contribution to the history of the Sino–Japanese War and that of modern China; it also makes an invaluable addition to the comparative history of wartime collaboration through recounting the Chinese experience of survival under the occupation state.—David P. Barrett,Chinese Historical Review
Timothy Brook’s study of wartime collaboration between Chinese local elites and Japanese army agents is a welcome and necessary part of the new historical thinking about wartime China… Brook’s book is a meticulously researched, subtly argued, and courageous study of a still delicate topic. It will be of value to all readers who wish to explore the dynamics of the 1937–45 Sino–Japanese War in more detail, and adds depth and maturity to a field that has sometimes seemed the prisoner of the type of nationalist paradigms that Brook seeks to undermine.—Rana Mitter, International History Review
Timothy Brook’s superb book is an example of the doing and writing of history at its best… In addition to painting a compelling picture of the multileveled and multidirectional complexity and ambiguity of politics and society under the occupation, Brook’s work is studded with notable insights… Brook’s writing style is at the same time urbane and engaging. In sum, this is an excellent study and a great read as well.—R. Keith Schoppa, American Historical Review
Brook has written a very rich study, drawing on exceptional primary sources, that brings forward new facts and deals with burning issues.—Marie-Claire Bergère, author of Sun Yat-sen
A fascinating book that offers a wealth of material on issues and events that are not well known. The prose is informal and engaging, bringing the reader into the problems Brook faced in researching such a sensitive topic. The stories he explores are part both of a distinctive Chinese history and a common (and difficult) history of conquest and rule in the twentieth century.—R. Bin Wong, Director, UCLA Asia Institute

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