傅高义著China and Japan：Facing History 出版

China and Japan

Facing History

作者：Ezra F. Vogel

出版社：哈佛大学出版社

出版日期：07/30/2019

价格：$39.95

ISBN：9780674916579

页码：536 pages

中译本待出：香港中文大学出版社/毛升译

本书简介

One of the world’s most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long history between China and Japan and argues that for the sake of world stability they must forge a new relationship for the twenty-first century.

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back fifteen hundred years. But today their relationship is strained. China’s military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan’s brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years less than ten percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve.

From the sixth century, when the Japanese adopted core elements of Chinese civilization, to the late twentieth century, when China looked to Japan for a path to capitalism, Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino–Japanese history. Throughout much of their past, the two countries maintained deep cultural ties, but China, with its great civilization and resources, had the upper hand. Japan’s success in modernizing in the nineteenth century and its victory in the 1895 Sino–Japanese War changed the dynamic, putting Japan in the dominant position. The bitter legacy of World War II has made cooperation difficult, despite efforts to promote trade and, more recently, tourism.

Vogel underscores the need for Japan to offer a thorough apology for the war, but he also urges China to recognize Japan as a potential vital partner in the region. He argues that for the sake of a stable world order, these two Asian giants must reset their relationship, starting with their common interests in environmental protection, disaster relief, global economic development, and scientific research.

作者简介

Ezra F. Vogel is the author of numerous books on Japan and China, including Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Harvard), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and a Best Book of the Year in the Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. It was also a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Gates Notes Top Read. Vogel is the author of the classic work Japan as Number One (Harvard), whose Japanese edition topped the bestseller list there for many years. He is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

目录

Preface

1. Chinese Contributions to Japanese Civilization, 600–838

2. Trade without Transformative Learning, 838–1862

3. Responding to Western Challenges and Reopening Relations, 1839–1882

4. Rivalry in Korea and the Sino–Japanese War, 1882–1895

5. Japanese Lessons for a Modernizing China, 1895–1937 [with Paula S. Harrell]

6. The Colonization of Taiwan and Manchuria, 1895–1945

7. Political Disorder and the Road to War, 1911–1937 [with Richard Dyck]

8. The Sino–Japanese War, 1937–1945

9. The Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Cold War, 1945–1972

10. Working Together, 1972–1992

11. The Deterioration of Sino–Japanese Relations, 1992–2018

12. Facing the New Era

Biographies of Key Figures

Notes

Sources and Further Reading

Acknowledgments

Index

Reviews

“Will become required reading… Vogel delves broadly into Japanese and Chinese societies to urge less acrimony and better mutual understanding… Displays a lifetime of deep engagement with sources in English, Chinese and Japanese… He is one of the few thinkers alive with sufficient traction to speak equally with leaders in both countries as well as people on the street.”—Alexis Dudden, The Times Literary Supplement

“This elegantly written history of the relationship between East Asia’s two major powers deploys a 1,500-year chronology with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic, illustrating how influence and power have waxed and waned between the two countries.”—Rana Mitter, Financial Times

“For 1,500 years, China and Japan have taken turns as the major Asian power players, shaping each other’s destinies even as they’re often at odds. Vogel traces the nuances.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A sweeping, often fascinating, account… Impressively researched and smoothly written, China and Japan is a timely reminder of how public perceptions are shaped by political expediency, how new leaders and propaganda can efface existing goodwill.”—Nicolas Gattig, Japan Times

“The importance of this book—by one of the great Asian specialists from the U.S. of the modern era—is in alerting what will hopefully be a wide readership to how complex, and crucial, Sino–Japanese relations are, and how any complacency about the two being able to get on easily and unproblematically can be cured by attending to their long, complex and frequently acrimonious history.”—Kerry Brown, Times Higher Education

“Ezra Vogel’s China and Japan is more than just an important, new addition to scholarship. Based on more than half a century of Vogel’s own work, along with that of many others, this masterful book traces the long relationship between China and Japan in a way that favors neither over the other and covers a wide range of social, political, economic, and cultural ties. General readers and scholars alike have much to gain from reading this marvelous and welcome history of the interactions between China and Japan.”—Joshua A. Fogel, author of Articulating the Sinosphere