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一起抗戰口述歷史: 我是怎樣做口述歷史的
2010年，正當全國各地民間志願者對抗戰老兵的關愛如火如荼的時候，老兵也正在不斷離世。 每個歷史親歷者的離世，就意味著一段歷史的消逝，一個關愛抗戰老兵志願者將鏡頭對準了這群耄耋之年的老人。十幾年來，他耗盡積蓄並四處化緣，獨自一人跨越大江南北、飛越臺灣海峽、橫跨太平洋，用他的鏡頭和話筒，逆時間之流，記錄了137位平均年齡96歲的抗戰老兵，搶救了42000分鐘即將凋謝的記憶，讓更多的人可以有機會瞭解不一樣視角的歷史。 此次，這位堅持了將近14年的民間口述歷史記錄者，將為大家分享他記錄口述歷史的經歷和實際操作經驗。歡迎對口述歷史感興趣的朋友，一起交流探討 READ MORE...
Chinese Migration Reconsidered: The Case of Nicaragua, 1880-1980
After the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) in the United States, a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment swept across the Americas. The Chinese diaspora coped with this challenging phenomenon in different ways. Some communities suffered a substantial loss of material wealth and legal rights. Extreme cases in the United States, Peru, and Mexico involved massacres of the Chinese, which made international headlines. However, some navigated the difficult times with much more success. One was the Chinese in Nicaragua, who took advantage of domestic and foreign assistance and successfully pushed the Nationalist Government in Nanjing to fight for their well-being on the other side of the world. Based on archival documents found in Managua and Taipei, this presentation will trace the origins, negotiations, and final agreements between China and Nicaragua that provided protection for the Chinese in Nicaragua in 1931, at a time when their compatriots elsewhere in Latin America experienced much more restrictive policies. The remarkable economic prosperity and political influence that the Chinese Nicaraguans enjoyed until 1979 suggest an alternative narrative to the story of global Chinese migration. The Nicaraguan case might also give us insights into how a combination of Chinese initiatives and international forces could challenge a pervasively hostile environment. READ MORE...
蔣介石、宋子文與戰時中美關係：顛覆我們熟知的史實與史觀
抗戰時期，中美關係最突出的幾件事當屬同盟作戰、開羅會議、以及史迪威事件；其中的關鍵人物都是蔣介石、宋子文。長期以來，普遍的認知是：中美攜手對日，起初合作無間，後來卻轉為嫌隙不斷；開羅會議是國民政府外交的重大成就；宋子文飛揚跋扈、以權謀私；史迪威與蔣介石鬧翻，鎩羽而歸等等。然而，近幾年開放的新檔案提供了新線索，當我們跳出民族與意識形態的框框，重新審視這段歷史，若干新發現竟顛覆了我們熟知的史實與史觀。 蔣介石、宋子文既是長官部屬，又是姻親郎舅；蔣威權自持，謹慎保守，宋則敏銳機變，不拘一格。1940年6月，蔣介石指派宋子文為其駐華府「特別代表」，宋子文很快在華府做得風生水起，但1943年10月返國述職時，卻和蔣介石大吵一架，並被蔣禁止參與任何中美事務。郎舅間的爭執成了公務上的決裂，對中美關係影響不小。我們嘗試揭開一些不為人知的史實，發現蔣宋間的互動複雜微妙，而環繞他們的戰時中美關係瞬息萬變，更讓人跌破眼鏡，嘆為觀止。 READ MORE...
Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts of Kissinger's negotiations with Chinese leaders. However, they have overlooked how, alongside these diplomatic talks, a rich program of travel and exchange had begun with ping-pong diplomacy. Improbable Diplomats reveals how a diverse cast of Chinese and Americans — athletes and physicists, performing artists and seismologists — played a critical, but to date overlooked, role in remaking US-China relations. Based on new sources from more than a dozen archives in China and the United States, Pete Millwood argues that the significance of cultural and scientific exchanges went beyond reacquainting the Chinese and American people after two decades of minimal contact; exchanges also powerfully influenced Sino-American diplomatic relations and helped transform post-Mao China READ MORE...
記錄片放映: 《蕭軍六記》 及 映後座談會
《蕭軍六記》圍繞左翼作家蕭軍起伏跌宕的人生，呈現了他所經歷的二十世紀的中國。1931 年日軍侵占東北之後，他和蕭紅逃離哈爾濱，在上海受到新文學之父魯迅先生的提携，以《八月的鄉村》蜚聲文壇。從東北到上海、到延安、到北京，蕭軍所交往的文學名家無數，與蕭紅是三十年代最著名的文壇雋侶，與胡風和聶紺弩同爲魯迅“最後的弟子”，與丁玲、艾青、舒群、白朗、羅烽等人的友誼複雜而深厚。蕭軍一直秉承魯迅精神，不願為任何政治黨派左右。抗戰期間，他在延安結識了毛澤東、周恩來、陳雲、彭真等中國共產黨高級領導人，但本人卻一直未入黨。 本片透過導演從 2003 年至 2020 年之間對很多文壇名家所作的訪談，采納蕭軍本人 1980 年所作四次公開演講的錄音做旁白，讓觀衆能夠聆聽他的聲音。同時，跟隨蕭軍蕭紅的旅程，影片呈現了 1920 年代末的東北，1930 年代的哈爾濱、青島、上海、武漢、臨汾、西安、蘭州，1940 年代的延安、香港、瀋陽，以及 1950 至 1980 年代北京的景象，展示了超過半個世紀的歷史畫卷 READ MORE...
Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War
What happens when geostrategic collaborations between states intersect with ethnic tensions? In response to this question, this talk examines how two of the world’s most populous countries interacted between 1945 and 1967, when the concept of citizenship was contested, political loyalty was in question, national identity was fluid, and the boundaries of political mobilization were blurred. Even though China and Indonesia do not share geographical borders, the existence of 2.5 million ethnic Chinese in Indonesia—many of whom had economic influence but an unclear citizenship status—gave rise to a porous social frontier. Through their everyday social, political and economic practices, “ordinary” Chinese diaspora influenced bilateral diplomacy. Their life experiences were shaped by but also helped shape the trajectory of governmental relations. READ MORE...
The Tormented Alliance: American Servicemen and the Occupation of China, 1941–1949
Zach Fredman’s The Tormented Alliance examines the formation, evolution, and undoing of the alliance between the United States and the Republic of China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War. Drawing on English and Chinese-language sources from all areas of China where US forces deployed during the 1940s, I show how each side brought to the alliance expectations that the other side was simply unable to meet, resulting in a tormented relationship across all levels of Sino-American engagement. Entangled in larger struggles over race, gender, and nation, the U.S. military in China transformed itself into a widely loathed occupation force: an aggressive, resentful, emasculating source of physical danger and compromised sovereignty. After Japan's surrender and the spring 1946 withdrawal of Soviet forces from Manchuria, the U.S. occupation became the chief obstacle to consigning foreign imperialism in China irrevocably to the past. Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek lost his country in 1949, and the U.S. military presence contributed to his defeat. The occupation of China also cast a long shadow, establishing patterns that have followed the U.S. military elsewhere in Asia up to the present. READ MORE...
蔣經國的台灣時代 (1949-1988)
Lecture Theatre H
2020年2月，美國史丹佛大學胡佛檔案館正式對外界公開蔣經國私人日記，這是繼2006年蔣介石日記開放後，另一件引起全球華人社會與學術界矚目的盛事。1988年1月13日蔣經國在"總統" 任內離世後，三十多年來，其歷史地位與評價仁智互見，也引發不少討論。本次演講以大量中、英文檔案史料為基礎，包括蔣經國日記與各地解密檔案，揭示1949年後蔣經國在台灣的政治活動，本次演講特別著重於他處理涉外關係 (台美、台蘇關係)、台灣內部政治運作與演變、以及兩岸關係三個面向。1949至1988年蔣經國的從政經歷與權力之路，在一定程度上何嘗不是二次戰後國民黨在台灣各方面發展的一個縮影。 READ MORE...
Envisioning Encounters: Missionary Filmmaking as Transnational Documentary in Twentieth Century China
Across the first half of the twentieth century, American Protestant and Catholic missionaries in China produced vernacular films situated between embeddedness in local communities, contested nation-building, and Sino-US interests. Equipment-oriented engagements, influenced by international amateur film culture, drove new ways of seeing and believing. With encounters mediated by mobile film production, missionaries and Chinese Christians saw themselves as collaborators in filmmaking experiences as well as actors linking global religious and secular communities with modern visual imaginations. Behind the lens and on-screen, they helped to shape American religious and cultural influence in China while embodying cross-cultural identities, wartime traumas, and shifting modernities. In the process, missionary films blended iconography, humanitarian perspectives, and documentary impulses with vernacular visualities – ranging from private family images to eyewitness records of military atrocities and regime change. They created a mediatory visual language that transcended national borders and secular-religious divides. Some films escaped their missionary mold and entered transpacific imaginations, coming to be as much about future perceptions as about present realities. In this talk, Prof. Joseph W. Ho traces the odysseys of cameras and footage framed by evolving historical milieus and transnational visions. In doing so, he reconstructs a hitherto unexplored visual fabric – embodied in miles of 16mm film and orphaned filmmaking technologies – that bridged the American missionary enterprise and modern China. READ MORE...
新書講座： 沈志華 — 《經濟漩渦：冷戰發生的另一個解釋框架》
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從經濟的視角觀察冷戰。過去的研究主要在地緣政治、安全和意識形態問題，可以換一個角度觀察。 安全和經濟兩個車輪，冷戰的發生不在“安全困境”，而在“經漩濟漩渦”。 READ MORE...