【访问学者成果推荐】 杜春媚《非凡的日常：二战后美国大兵与中国百姓》

杜春媚，普林斯顿大学博士，现任香港岭南大学历史系副教授、系主任。主要从事中国近现代史研究。代表著作包括：Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II（剑桥大学出版社，2025）、Gu Hongming’s Eccentric Chinese Odyssey （宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，2019）、《奇士异旅：辜鸿铭还乡记》（中国社会科学文献出版社，2026）、《冷战时期的美国与东亚社会》（秀威出版社，2023）及《疯癫笔记：我在美国精神病院的实习经历》（江苏凤凰文艺出版社，2017）等。其研究曾获美国国家人文基金会、美国哲学学会、蒋经国国际学术交流基金会、香港大学教育资助委员会“人文及社会科学杰出学者计划”等多项学术奖项与资助。

杜春媚教授于2017年1月至6月在复旦大学中华文明国际研究中心从事访问研究。

在这部探讨1945至1949年中美关系的历史著作中，作者聚焦于美国士兵与中国平民在日常生活中的交往与碰撞。借助中美双方的官方档案、民间材料与个人回忆，作者勾勒出美国大兵与中国百姓——无论是街边小贩、普通行人、人力车夫，还是所谓“吉普女郎”与盗窃嫌犯——之间在感官、物质与象征层面的多重纠葛。以“日常生活”为棱镜，本书揭示了交通事故、性关系、偷窃纠纷、黑市买卖等看似微不足道的偶然事件，如何在这个政权更迭的历史转折点，影响宏观政治的图景。作者指出，正是这些看似琐碎的日常摩擦与冲突，将抽象的帝国主义与主权概念变得真实可触，进而点燃了民间的反美情绪。与此同时，这些日常接触也孕育了意外的联结。在对抗与互利之间，它促成了一种民间“非正式外交”，塑造了新的身份、搭建起跨国纽带，也埋下了文化交融的伏笔，为两国关系留下了深远而复杂的历史印记。

‘This sophisticated book connects everyday offenses and geopolitics into a broad historical argument about the limits of ideology, policy, and propaganda to grasp popular outrage. The Jeep transitioned from a symbol of Allied victory to a representation of American imperialism in postwar China when the U.S. military occupation of North China let loose soldiers who bullied, raped, disregarded traffic signs and offended ordinary people. Reconstructing a complex history of the U.S. Marine III Amphibian Corps (IIIAC)’s fifty-thousand-man force sent to help end the Japanese occupation, Du creates a detailed account for another explanation for how the U.S. ‘lost’ the People’s Republic of China. Deftly wrapping macro-politics (the rise of the U.S. Empire and Cold War) around a regional struggle to capture the Chinese state, this book clarifies how it is still possible to write about the people as a motive force. Beneath abstraction, Du argues, is the terrain of everyday experience where we decide to act or not.’

白露（Tani Barlow） - Rice University

‘Compelling, affective, and marvellously delightful to read, Everyday Occupation ingeniously places the postwar US occupation of China under a microscope and reveals a rich texture of sociocultural reality in a volatile historical era. This is microhistory at its best.’

黄运特（Yunte Huang） - University of California, Santa Barbara

‘A remarkable study of the Chinese response to US soldiers who lingered too long in their country after 1945. With research both broad and deep, Chunmei Du demonstrates that the everyday sociologies of encounter - involving all the senses and including speeding Jeeps, American sexual misconduct, and ‘halt or shoot’ orders that resulted in the deaths of scores of Chinese - had direct, and devastating, impacts on China-US relations.’

Andrew Rotter - Colgate University

‘This well documented study of Sino-American encounters over women, food, and material objects foregrounds young American soldiers as accidental emissaries of a postwar global empire of liberal democracy. A multifaceted analysis made possible only by time, Du compellingly delineates the original dilemmas that structured the forgotten beginning of contemporary Chinese anti-Americanism.’

叶文心（Wen-hsin Yeh） - University of California, Berkeley