New Chinese Military History, 1839–1951: What’s the Story?

IF 0.1 4区 历史学 Q4 HISTORY
C. W. Hayford
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Abstract

Since 1990, New Chinese Military History in the West has remedied scholarly neglect of Chinese warfare and changed the usual stories of modern China. These studies disproved Orientalist assumptions of a unique “Chinese way of war” or a strategic culture that avoided aggressive confrontation. Scholars also challenge the assumption that Confucian immobility led to a clash of civilizations and decisive defeat in the Opium Wars, First Sino-Japanese War, and Boxer War of 1900. In fact, Qing officials were quick and successful in creating a new military regime. New military histories of the warlords, the Sino-Japanese Wars, and the Chinese Civil War show that developing new types of warfare was central in creating the new nation. All these wars split the country into factions that were supported by outside powers: they were internationalized civil wars. The article also asks how the choice of terms, labels, and categories shapes interpretations and political messages.
新中国军事史,1839-1951:故事是怎样的?
自1990年以来,西方的《新中国军事史》弥补了学术界对中国战争的忽视,改变了现代中国通常的故事。这些研究推翻了东方主义者关于独特的“中国战争方式”或避免侵略性对抗的战略文化的假设。学者们还对儒家的不动导致文明冲突和在鸦片战争、第一次中日战争和1900年义和团战争中的决定性失败的假设提出了质疑。事实上,清朝官员在建立一个新的军事政权方面迅速而成功。军阀、中日战争和中国内战的新军事史表明,发展新型战争是建立新国家的核心。所有这些战争都将国家分裂成了得到外部势力支持的派系:它们是国际化的内战。文章还询问了术语、标签和类别的选择如何影响解释和政治信息。
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