Wars as Dividing Significance of the Lines？ Rethinking the Sino-Japanese War in Twentieth Century China

作     者：J. Megan Greene 

作者机构：Department of History University of Kansas Lawrence KS 66045 USA 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of History in China》 (中国历史学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第13卷第1期

页      面：73-89页

学科分类：08[工学] 0826[工学-兵器科学与技术] 0802[工学-机械工程] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

主　　题：Sino-Japanese War western China collaboration development impact of war 

摘      要：Historical periodization frequently takes wars as turning points--as ruptures that signify the end or beginning of an era. At the same time, front lines have often been taken as boundaries that contain the activities of one side or the other. Thus, discontinuity and disjuncture rather than continuity and fluidity have o-en been the points of emphasis among historians who have taken war events as turning points, or who have seen lines of combat as impermeable. A new focus on the Sino-Japanese War period has begun to reveal ways in which that moment served not as an interruption but as a part of longer term processes of change and development that characterized China＇s mid-twentieth century. It also permits us to gain a deeper understanding of the fluidity of human movement and socio-economic interaction that frequently boundaries and to think about similarities various Chinese spaces. The aim of this paper crossed both political and military linkages, and differences between is to consider ways in which the new generation of scholarship on the Sino-Japanese War period offers new ways of thinking about continuity, change, similarity and difference across both temporal and physical boundaries that have served as the parameters for much of the earlier scholarship on the period. To this end, the paper examines recent literature on the Sino-Japanese War period, as well as literature that crosses that period, to examine ways in which this historiography has challenged conventional periodizations and political and geographical delineations