英国存藏二战时期中缅印战区存藏及历史叙事

… Hopefully in the near future, we will have a much more integrated system of historical research and openness of archives in the historiography of the China- Burma- India …

… for the dissemination of archival and historical information. … the CBI archives and examines their implications for the future. … and appreciation for the skills of archivists and historians. …

… files were opened to us, and we enjoyed a reflected prestige, With that exception, the most closely guarded files, … In historiography as in war, CBI was a marginal theater, and I imagine …

Series Foreword by Myron J. Smith, Jr. Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology Introduction Historiographical Narrative Biographical Essay Manuscript and Archival Resources General Douglas MacArthur, The Person World War I, West Point, Army Chief of Staff, and the Philippines World War II The Occupation of Japan The Korean War The Last Years Areas for Future Research Annotated Bibliography Author Index Subject Index

… structed for us from the voluminous files of unpublished records many important events … account of the hist can army in the China-Burma-India theater. Toget Feis' The China Tangle, …

… the contentions made by the US and British official historians, Maurice Matloff and Sir Michael … related to the China-Burma-India theater bore an American imprint, and the British, though …

Abstract This article investigates how the Chinese Expeditionary Force joined the Burma Campaign and retreated to India in 1942, and how the Chinese, American, and British authorities negotiated to determine the destiny of Chinese forces in India. This article argues that the choice of Ramgarh, a small town in northeast India, as the site of a training centre for the Chinese Expeditionary Force sheds light on a decades-long programme of colonial internment-camp building in British India, and illuminates the difficult relationship between Chinese and British authorities during World War II. In doing so, it also argues that the historiography of China's War of Resistance requires Southeast and South Asian perspectives.

ABSTRACT The article looks at British India’s Burma campaign of 1941–45 and asks why the decisive battles of Imphal and Kohima appear to be virtually invisible from India’s national imagination today. It further critiques dominant readings of the twin battles for their failure to accommodate the heterogeneity of experiences and contributions of the hill tribes of the India-Burma borderlands who fought in it. The omission appears even more intriguing given that despite being on the winning side, the border communities end up losing the memory battle. While it questions the conventional notion that memory is the postcolonial state’s prerogative, it also recognizes that counter-memories are by no means monolithic. It makes the case for acknowledging alternative constructions and communities of practice that imaginatively decenter the construction of memory in the borderlands. Without connecting with the lives, and in turn, the memories of the border communities who inhabit the physical sites of the war, the cliché of the “forgotten war” will remain an overused, and ultimately, an offensive trope.

ABSTRACT This article reassesses the value of the British government’s official histories of World War II by considering their relationship to other official and unofficial accounts of the war. Whilst basically agreeing that they were ‘the last deception operation’ of the war (Aldrich 2004), I argue they provide a useful vantage point from which to navigate a range of sources, with relevance for the current age of information warfare by state and non-state actors. I focus on what could be considered one of the most authentic sources for the official histories: unit war diaries that have been kept of British military campaigns since 1907. I read war diaries of special operations in occupied Burma during World War II against both the official history, The War Against Japan (1957–69), and memoirs of these still contested events. I detail how an official narrative of the first operation, Operation Longcloth (1943), was cast in doubt by war diaries and related documents written by soldiers, which went on to inform the critique of the campaign and Brigade Commander Orde Wingate in The War Against Japan. I also look at how bureaucratic regulations shaped a wide variety of texts on the operation and allowed for the expression of ambivalence about one of its most controversial aspects: Wingate’s policy of leaving behind the sick, wounded, and exhausted.

… War also accelerates the creation of records supporting war, … of a people's memory, the memory of war grows. Somewhere … if they might cause painful wartime memories. Historian Mark …

This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were intended to be kept for posterity, acting as ‘domestic archives of empire’ for Anglophone audiences across the globe. Such publications represented the empire at war and in peacetime, supposedly fit for the postwar moment. At the time of their publication, these ‘domestic archives of empire’ exhorted white Anglophone readers to view the British Empire as embodying a liberal and tolerant mission. Today, they offer insights into a vernacular history of empire on the verge of fragmentation, presaging the challenges of reconstruction and decolonization and the development of imperial nostalgia.

… forms used during the war (propaganda posters, war artists’ … realities, memories, and feelings about the war. The “comics … When it comes to the Burma Campaign, beginning to tell the …

… Other founder members included Colonel Bernard Fergusson, a wartime special forces … memories with me. Materials from the Public Record Office, the India Office Library and Records …

Exploring the construction and maintenance of Nationalist Chinese soldiers’ graves overseas, this article sheds light on post-World War II commemorative politics. After having fought for the Allies against Japanese aggression in the China-Burma-India Theater, the Chinese expeditionary troops sporadically received posthumous care from Chinese veterans and diaspora groups. In the Southeast Asia Theater, the Chinese soldiers imprisoned in the Japanese-run camps in Rabaul were denied burial in the Allied war cemetery and recognition as military heroes. Analyzing archival documents from China, Taiwan, Britain, Australia, and the United States, I demonstrate how the afterlife of Chinese servicemen under foreign sovereignties mattered in the making of the modern Chinese state and its international status.

… War Office in London suggested that China be treated according to the agreement signed between France and Great Britain during World War … the narrative of the World War II alliance. …

… suggest the possible means to draw on creative and lively military archives. … of WWII British military camouflage, I extended the reach of the military archive beyond the National Archives…

… what is called the China–Burma–India (CBI) theatre in relation to the … predominant strand of historiography which engaged with … and soldiers, the colonial archival record often sought to …

… This study intervenes in the historiography by shifting … and national press coverage, archival photographs held by the … who had served in the China–Burma–India theatre. On several …

… brutalities on the Burma-Thailand Railway. While the private … retrieval of their memories within broader imperial debates, … tempestuous reevaluation of the imperial record and its legacies…

ABSTRACT This article explores recent literature on the often-overlooked Burma theatre of the Second World War. The brutal contest in Burma, which took place in the most hostile of climates, was never a priority for any of the belligerents in the global war. Despite this, a re-examination of the men who fought in the jungles, hills, and plains of Burma from myriad nations and cultures – and who bled and died in their thousands – adds a number of dimensions to our understanding of the war in the Far East. The twenty-first century has seen an expansion of the literature on the Burma theatre which has added both depth and colour to this truly unique arena of war. These contributions are invaluable in the realms of logistics, airpower, intelligence, politics, and soldiery. This fresh wave of literature includes the re-publication of certain first-hand examinations of some of the most disastrous moments in British military history; the longest fighting retreat conducted by the British Army; the reforging of that army into a victorious fighting force; and accounts of some of the greatest special operations units in history. Such accounts, in tandem with a number of recent scholarly monographs and edited volumes, argue strongly for the rediscovery of this ‘forgotten’ war.

… were faced by both the POWs and SOE when recording their activities. For the POWs, the vast … of imperial expansion, whereas OSS ‘viewed their own role in a much more benign light’.…

ABSTRACT This article examines how sex affected the larger politics of the Sino–US alliance during World War II. By early 1945, Chinese from across the social spectrum resented the US military presence, but just one issue sparked a violent backlash: sexual relations between American soldiers (GIs) and Chinese women. Two interrelated, patriarchal narratives about sex emerged that spring. Starting in March, government-backed newspapers began criticizing “Jeep girls,” an epithet coined to describe the Chinese women who consorted with American servicemen. Rumors also circulated that GIs were using Jeeps to kidnap “respectable” women and rape them. Each narrative portrayed women’s bodies as territory to be recovered and inextricable from national sovereignty. These narratives resonated widely, turning Jeep girls into the catalyst through which all variables causing resentment against the US military presence intersected and converged. With Japan on the ropes, China’s allied friends now stood in the way of irreversibly consigning foreign imperialism to the past. Sexual relations were not the Sino–US alliance’s seedy underside, but the core site of its tensions.

… and of the issues surrounding the Burma war itself. One of my … Objective Burma stirring up antiAmerican sentiment in Britain-… suggestion that the proposed Burma film was fiction, and the …

… that the British would have welcomed the return of Burma, in the … In the Cold War in South-East Asia, Burma's rice remained … Burma documents, together with extracts from the narratives …

The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom … respect the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live, and they wish to see sovereign rights restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.