China at War

by Hans van de Ven

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  In the course of thinking about and researching wartime China, I have incurred many debts. I am deeply grateful to all those who have helped me along the way, including the many whom space restrictions do not allow me to thank individually here. In the early 1990s, Stephen MacKinnon convened a small workshop on wartime China at a lush golf resort in Tucson, Arizona, bringing together the few China scholars who were then undertaking serious work on wartime China, including Diana Lary, Chang-tai Hung, Chang Jui-te, Arthur Waldron, Edward McCord and Joanna Waley-Cohen. That group expanded over time and drew in a younger generation of scholars, with the result that it has now become large and diverse. But the core group never lost its sense of purpose, seriousness and cohesion. We never institutionalised, which ensured that our meetings were easily arranged, our discussions fruitful, and our gatherings informal and friendly. This special group of colleagues has been a great support to me over the years.

  The moral support, scholarly enthusiasm and incomparable fundraising abilities of Ezra Vogel ensured that the results of our research gained a far wider hearing than would otherwise have been the case. In the late 1990s, Ezra became troubled by the realisation that the growing attention to wartime events in China and Japan was increasing rather than decreasing the tensions between the two countries. Together with Yang Tianshi of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Yamada Tatsuo of Keio University, Ezra took the initiative in bringing together scholars from China and Japan, as well as Europe and America, in the hope of establishing consensus about the most important events of the Second World War in east Asia. Mobilised by Ezra, our small group helped organise a series of meetings of scholars about such aspects of the war as its main battles, the fate of different regions and foreign relations. Five conferences later – in Boston, Tokyo, Chongqing (twice) and Taipei – and, unsurprisingly, no common narrative has yet emerged. Nonetheless, the results of our meetings have been published in Chinese, Japanese and English and the leading Second World War scholars of all three regions have become colleagues who meet regularly, respect each other’s work and understand each other’s concerns. A strong basis for continuing dialogue has been put into place. That is no mean achievement in itself.