(5) "Mr Bernstein quotes at length from the wartime diary of the famous novelist Ba Jin, who witnessed the leveling of the beautiful city of Guilin: 'I saw how the bombs exploded into flame, and I saw how the wind added to the fire, twisting two or three plumes of smoke together. . . . The black smoke was streaked with red flashes and huge red tongues of flame.' Yet Ba Jin wrote that watching this devastation with a 'heart of hatred' did not leave him completely dispirited; there were moments of liveliness, even 'glee and laughter,' that convinced him that 'China’s cities cannot be bombed into fear.'”
(a) 巴金, 桂林的受難. In 旅途通訊.
("我帶著一顆憎恨的心目擊了桂林的每一次受難。我看見炸彈怎樣毀坏房屋,我看見燒夷彈怎樣發火,我看見風怎樣助長火勢使兩三股濃煙合在一起。 * * * 在那些地方我過的并不是悲觀絕望的日子。甚至在它們的受難中我還看見中國城市的歡笑。中國的城市是炸不怕的。 * * * 1939年1月中旬在桂林")
(b) 周立民, 五四之子的世紀之旅: 巴金評傳. 臺北市: 秀威資訊科技股份有限公司, 2011, at page 162
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("註2: 《旅途通訊》 • 初版為上下冊, 分別於1939年三月, 四月文化生活出版社初版")
(6) "Throughout the book, Mr Bernstein draws upon Chinese-language journalism and memoirs, as in a wonderful chapter evoking the jubilant mood in China just after Japan’s surrender in September 1945, where he translates a section of a memoir by Shi Zhe, Mao’s Russian translator: 'There were red flags all over, in the center [of Yenan] and the surrounding mountains, drums beating, fireworks exploding, and people throwing hats in the air. The farmers gave away apples and pears, and people who didn’t know each other hugged and danced. That night the mountains and fields were seas of fire and floods of joy.'"
李捷 于俊道 (主编), 《实录毛泽东》(第三卷). 长征出版社, 2013
fuwu.12371.cn/2014/01/22/ARTI1390373395358112_3.shtml
("师哲回忆说:* * * 日本投降的消息传到延安,延安全城沸腾了!以延安城为中心的几条辐射形山沟中,满山遍野红旗招展、锣鼓喧天、爆竹齐鸣。人们欢呼雀跃,把衣服帽子抛向天空。卖水果的老乡把筐里的苹果、梨送给近旁不相识的人。不管认不认识,大家互相拥抱,拉起手来扭秧歌。当天夜晚,满山遍野是火的海洋、欢乐的洪流!狂欢持续了三天")
(7) “Mr Bernstein’s ties [as a student] to [John King] Fairbank 費正清 matter in another way: He draws disproportionately on studies by those who, like him, studied with that field-shaping figure [Fairbank] roughly a half-century ago”
(8) "The book * * * overlooks many works by scholars trained after his own graduate school days [under Fairbank]. Notable volumes missing from the bibliography include Anthony Saich’s 1996 book on Mao, 'The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party'; the 1999 updated edition of Suzanne Pepper’s 'Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949'; and, more significantly still, various publications by Rana Mitter, including 'Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945,' arguably the most important synthesis of the topic published in decades."
(a) Anthony Saich, The Rise to Power of the Chinese Communist Party. ME Sharpe, 1996.
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs. John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, undated
www.hks.harvard.edu/about/faculty-staff-directory/anthony-saich
(b)
(i) Suzanne Pepper, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949. Berkeley: University of California Press, I978.
(ii) Suzanne Pepper, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle, 1945-1949. 2nd ed. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999.
(c) A professor with Oriental Institute, St Cross College, University of Oxford, Rana Mitter, the British-born son of Bengali parents, concentrates on Republican China.
www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ea/chinese/rmitter.html
That book of his, Forgotten Ally, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013.
(9) "Scholars now often ask different questions about the era than those that absorb Mr Bernstein * * * And could it be that, as Mr. Mitter argues persuasively, the harshness of the wartime experience itself transformed the Nationalist and Communist camps alike, accentuating the most vicious tendencies within each, so that people with softening or liberalizing impulses had less and less room to maneuver?"
This quotation is contrary to an excerpt in the window of the print, which re-stated the question as a fact.
(10) "Mr Wasserstrom is a professor of history at UC Irvine and author of 'China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.'”
That book was published by Oxford University Press, in 2013.
www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780199974962.html
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