新书推荐｜王召东英文专著《中英谈判与寻求战后问题的解决：条约、香港与西藏》
我院教师王召东博士的英文专著《中英谈判与寻求战后问题的解决：条约、香港与西藏》（Sino-British Negotiations and The Search for A Post-War Settlement, 1942-1949: Treaties, Hong Kong and Tibet）于2022年4月由欧洲知名学术出版社De Gruyter Oldenbourg出版，收录在该出版社“现代中国的转型（Transformations of Modern China）”系列丛书中，为第三本。
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110706659/html?lang=en
关于本书
本书是对1942-1949年间中英关系的系统研究，围绕英国在华殖民地位的废除和战后双边平等关系的建立两大主题，重点关注三个子问题：条约谈判（中英新约与中英商约）、香港回归和西藏政治地位。首先，基于丰富的中、英、美三边官方原始档案，本书发掘出不少被湮没的历史事实，比如英国内部有关战后世界经济安排与对华经济政策的联动性讨论、战时英国关于抢先收复香港的秘密计划与行动、英国政府启动西藏问题国际化和促使美国关注西藏问题的努力等。其次，以往学界多将中英战后安排的失败归结于英国的顽固和国民政府的软弱等原因。本书揭示出国际因素，特别是美国政策的变化，对中英关系和中英历史问题解决的关键性影响。1943年《中英新约》是在美国的压力下启动和完成的。随着美国政府对华态度的转冷和盟国战略调整，以及由此引发的中国战略地位的下降，国民政府对英交涉困难不断加大。此外，苏联等其他国际因素也对中英战后问题的解决产生了重要影响。
根据本书的研究，太平洋战争以及由此引发的全球性战后安排为中国解决中英历史问题提供了重大机遇，但由于国内和国际多重原因，这一机遇没有被完全抓住——结果部分问题被解决，部分问题被搁置，部分问题被复杂化了。治外法权等不平等条约权利在1943年签订的《中英新约》中被成功废除，但新型平等的商贸关系没有能建立。英国政府试图运用“平等与互惠原则”对等地打开中国市场，但遭到了国民政府贸易保护主义立场的拒绝。香港回归被搁置，但国民政府对香港问题的持续炒作叫停了英国对香港的第一次民主化尝试。香港民心倾向大陆，英国政府担心贸然开放选举会给国民政府的政治介入打开方便之门。战时，英国研判西藏在战后极有可能回归中国，因而调整了西藏政策：一方面，加速对争议领土（中国藏南地区，达旺除外）的实际控制（后被独立的印度政府继承）；另一方面，减小对西藏地方的军事支持（担心激怒军事盟国中国和美国），转而加大舆论支持，包括游说西藏上层追求“西藏独立”，启动西藏“独立地位”的国际宣传和推动美国关注西藏事务等。这些复杂化和国际化了西藏问题，并为中印边界冲突纠纷埋下了伏笔。从这个角度审视，中英战后安排问题虽是一个历史问题，也仍对现实，特别是当今中国和印度产生着持续性影响。
参考目录
Introduction
• Overview
• Literature Review
• Scope, Sources and Framework
Chapter I Negotiations over the Abolition of British Extraterritoriality and Other Related Rights in China, 1942-1943
• Britain's "Informal Empire" in China
• The Pacific War and the Revival of the Abolition of Extraterritoriality
• Sino-British Negotiations and the Abolition of Other British Privileges in China
• Conclusion
Chapter Il The Abortive Sino-British Commercial Treaty, 1943-1948
• China's Eagerness for a New Commercial Treaty with Britain and the United States
• Britain's Difficulties in Preparing a Treaty Draft, 1943-1946
• The Signing of the Sino-American Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation
• The Gap between China's and Britain's Treaty Proposals
• "No Treaty Better than a Bad Treaty"
• Conclusion
Chapter III The Question of Hong Kong in Sino-British Relations, 1942–1945
• The British Colony of Hong Kong
• Disputes over the New Territories in the 1943 Sino-British Treaty Negotiations
• The Mediation of the United States over the Matter of Hong Kong, 1943–1945
• British Wartime Plans and Preparations for Restoring Hong Kong
• The Race for Hong Kong and Sino-British Disputes over the Right to Accept the Japanese Surrender in Hong Kong
• Conclusion
Chapter IV The Unsettled Future of Hong Kong, 1946–1949
• The Nationalist Attitude towards the Recovery of Hong Kong, 1945–1946
• British Policy Options regarding Hong Kong’s Future, 1945–1947
• The Hong Kong Residents’ Attitudes toward the Reversion of Hong Kong to China
• The Shifting Focus of the Nationalist Government Position on Hong Kong, 1947–1948
• Further Conflict between China and Britain: the Kowloon Walled City, 1948–1949
• Britain’s Hong Kong Policy in the Face of the Transition of Power in China, 1948–1949
• Conclusion
Chapter V Tibet and the Wartime Sino-British Relationship, 1942–1944
• China, Britain and Tibet before 1942
• Tibet as a Supply Route to Support Wartime China
• Sino-Tibetan Military Tensions and Subsequent Sino-British Disputes
• American Concerns over Tibet
• The British Review Their Tibetan Policy in 1943: the Concept of a Buffer
• A Further British Dilemma: Practical Control of the Assam Border Areas
• Conclusion
Chapter VI The Last Sino-British Rivalry for Tibet, 1944–1947
• Anglo-Chinese Manoeuvring over Tibet, 1944–1945
• Chinese Endeavours to Bring Tibet into Its Post-war Political Framework
• The British Policy of a Tibetan Status Quo
• The Position in 1947
• The Tibetan Inheritance
• Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
学者推荐
Dr Wang’s book is a most impressive piece of work. Drawing on archival sources in Britain, the United States and China, it explored the bilateral relationship between the British government and the Chinese nationalist government during the period 1942-1949 as they sought to negotiate a post-war settlement. These negotiations enjoyed an encouraging start but failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion for either party. The reasons for this failure, as the thesis deftly demonstrates, were complex and incorporated both internal and external factors, including the powerful influence of the United States.
——Prof Jeremy Crang（英国爱丁堡大学英国史教授）
The importance of Zhaodong’s work is in demonstrating the importance of China as a major ally during the Second World War, and the difficult process of China’s participation in the making of the postwar world. These points are important contributions to the history of the Republic of China, to British history, and to the international history of the Second World War.
——Dr Felix Boceking (英国爱丁堡大学中国现代史高级讲师)
Zhaodong’s book offers a forensic examination of Sino-British negotiations during the Second World War as the two nations battled to define the place of Britain in postwar East Asia. The book reconstructs and explains the dilemmas faced by the Chinese and British leaders in preserving territorial and economic interests over the course of the conflict. This is not an easy story to tell, since it not only requires real mastery of both the British and Chinese diplomatic scene, but also an ability to work out how specific acts of negotiation took place. Dr Wang was able to make a convincing case through careful reading and mastery of a diverse range and large volume of sources: materials from the UK and Taipei archives, along with published archival collections in Taipei, the UK and US. His diligent research allowed him to argue that the Chinese Nationalist government played a much larger and more active role in the process of negotiations than the previous scholarship has shown.
——Dr Tehyun Ma（英国谢菲尔德大学国际关系史讲师）
关于作者
王召东，中国人民大学国际关系学院讲师，中国人民大学“杰出青年学者”（B岗），英国爱丁堡大学哲学博士。研究领域为国际关系史、中英关系史、中印边界纠纷等。曾在The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History，The International History Review等核心期刊发表过数篇学术论文。国家社科基金一般项目《印度政府关于中印边界争端的历史叙事与我国的应对研究》主持人。