新书：高峥《接管杭州：城市改造與幹部蟬變（1949–1954）》

229 x 152 mm, 310 页 

香港中文大学出版社, 2019/04

ISBN: 978-988-237-100-2

销售价：US$24.00

作者：高峥，美国马里兰大学历史系副教授。

Professor Gao has previously been an Assistant Professor at Peking University and Newport News University, and a Research Associate at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has written three books: Meeting Technology's Advance: Social Changes in China and Zimbabwe in the Railway Age(1997) and The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre, 1949-1954 (2004). Historical Dictionary of Modern China, 1800-1949 (2009). He has also published several articles including The Call of the Oases: The 'Peaceful Liberation' of Xingjiang, 1949-1953, “Shooting Social Suffering: Photography and China’s Human Disasters”, War Culture, Nationalism, and Political Campaigns, 1950-53, Rediscovery of Western Science and Technology and Definition of Chinese Foreign Policy, From Rural Revolution to Urban Revolutionization: A Case Study of Luzhongnan, and “Eating, Cooking and Shanghai ‘Less-manly Men’: Social Consequence of the Food Rationing and Economic Reforms ” Professor Gao has received the Robert D. Gries Prize from Yale University in 1994, an NEH Summer Grant in 1995, and the Summer Research Award from the University of Maryland in 1999, and Hopkins fellowship in 2006.

当中共接管城市，传统的城市精英遇到农民出身的新统治者，他们如何看待彼此？

随着1949年军事胜利，中国共产党开始了对城市的接管。中共离开熟悉的农村根据地，进入城市陌生的政治文化生态，逐步巩固政权、恢复经济、改造机构。而由此启动的文化转型，与其政治变化具有同等重要的意义。本书以杭州为中心，详细分析1949至1954年间中共对接管干部的准备和训练，城市政策的制定与对话，以及接管后城市与乡村、南方与北方、革命与传统等不同文化的碰撞和互动。在此过程中，革命者改造了传统城市，城市也改造了农村革命者。革命者这种新的文化认同，对其树立新政权的合法性、稳定性和现代性，同时保持革命理想，起了决定性的作用。

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“这本书将成为解释共产党接管中国城市的一个标本著作。”

                                                            ─鲍德威（David D. Buck，威斯康辛大学密尔沃基分校历史系荣休教授）