We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
如果你会德文,可以从 Ulrich Mählert 的 Kleine Geschichte der DDR 开始,小册子读起来很轻松。
如果真的很感兴趣,接下来可以翻阅大部头Gebhardt: Handbuch der deutschen Geschichte. Band 22, Deutschland unter alliierter Besatzung 1945-1949, Die DDR 1949-1990. 这本最新的研究手册提供了详尽的图书、期刊和档案指引,还有对东德史研究的系统回顾。
Blackwill, Robert D., and Richard Fontaine. Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Shambaugh, David. Breaking the Engagement: How China Won & Lost America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
Blackwill, Robert D., and Richard Fontaine. Lost Decade: The U.S. Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Davis, Bob, and Lingling Wei. Superpower Showdown: How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War. New York: HarperCollins, 2020.
Dou, Eva. House of Huawei: Inside the Secret World of China’s Most Powerful Company. London: Abacus, 2025.
McGee, Patrick. Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company. New York: Scribner, 2025.
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Mitter, Rana. China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival. London: Allen Lane, 2013.
牛津大学/哈佛大学历史学家 Mitter 的代表作,一卷本的抗日战争史。
请记住一定要读台版或英文版,不要读新世界出版社的简中删改版。
Racing the enemy
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
这本书已经出版 20 年,算不得新书。但鉴于如此重要的书依然没有中文版,还是要介绍一下。
日本为何无条件投降?传统观点归因于美国扔了两颗原子弹。而长谷川毅充分利用苏联和日本档案,提出了挑战性的修正观点:相比原子弹,苏军参战起得作用更大, the Soviet entry into the war played a greater role than the atomic bombs in inducing Japan to surrender.
德文版 Winkler, Heinrich August. Der lange Weg nach Westen: Deutsche Geschichte vom "Dritten Reich" bis zur Wiedervereinigung. München: C.H. Beck, 2002.
英文版 Winkler, Heinrich August. Germany: The Long Road West. Volume 2: 1933–1990. Translated by Alexander J. Sager. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Hirata, Koji. Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Balcells L. The consequences of victimization on political identities: Evidence from Spain[J]. Politics & Society, 2012, 40(3): 311-347.
Rozenas A, Zhukov Y M. Mass repression and political loyalty: Evidence from Stalin’s ‘terror by hunger’[J]. American Political Science Review, 2019, 113(2): 569-583.
Kuran T. Now out of never: The element of surprise in the East European revolution of 1989[J]. World politics, 1991, 44(1): 7-48.
Rick Fawn, Jiri Hochman: Historical Dictionary of the Czech State, Second Edition. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010 非常好用的捷克史研究词典
William Mahoney: The History of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 中文译本《捷克和斯洛伐克史》这本书贵在有简体中文版,经我对比,基本无删减,但书中有少量细节错误,比如把 1946 选举错植到 1945
Mary Heimann: Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed. Yale University Press, 2009. 作者对捷克有更多批判意识
Archie Brown: The Rise and Fall of Communism. Harper Collins, 2009 牛津大学的布朗教授是苏联和东欧共产主义研究权威,尤其推荐书中的布拉格之春和戈尔巴乔夫章节
Timothy Garton Ash: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. Yale University Press, 2023 艾什的新书,他亲历了1980以来的欧洲世事变迁
Jiří Kosta: Die tschechische/tschechoslowakische Wirtschaft im mehrfachen Wandel. Lit, Münster 2005 科斯塔是希克委员会经济学家,布拉格之春后流亡西德执教于法兰克福大学,这是他晚年所写的捷克20世纪经济史,德文
Martin Schulze Wessel: Der Prager Frühling. Reclam, 2018 可能是最好的布拉格之春简史,德文
György Dalos: Der Vorhang Geht Auf. C.H.Beck, 2010 1989 主题最好的作品之一,德文
James Krapfl: Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989–1992. Cornell University Press, 2013 这本书以民众为中心,证明捷克 1989 革命不只是精英协议,也不只发生在大城市,而是实现了全民动员
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