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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...