美国国会图书馆藏中日战争(1937-1945)手稿文献

Manuscript Materials for the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) at the Library of Congress

宋玉武(Yuwu Song)

《天禄论丛：中国研究图书馆员学会学刊（简体中文）》 5卷 (2015/03) Pp. 22-51

摘要

美国国会图书馆手稿部、亚洲部、图片部、人文部等藏有一批和中日战争（1937-1945）有关的手稿文献。以手稿部为例，通过查询美国国会图书馆手稿部检索目录（Library of Congress Manuscript Division Finding Aids Online: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html），可以找到一批战时的信件、日记、备忘录、电报、演讲稿、文章、剪报等相关原始文件。此类文献特藏有20余个。其中Nelson Trusler Johnson（纳尔逊．詹森）、Owen Lattimore（欧文．拉铁莫尔）、Harry Ervin Yanell（哈里．颜露尔）、Henry Luce（亨利．鲁斯）、Clare Boothe Luce（克莱尔．布思．鲁斯）5项手稿特藏比较重要。这批文献对研究中日战争、中日外交关系、中美外交关系、美日外交关系，均有助益。对于研究者来说，运用此类原始手稿对照其他历史档案，进行史学佐证尤为必要。中国学者研究中日战争时，大多使用中文、日文的原始文献，利用英文原始文献的相对较少。这些学者如能挖掘此类英文文献，或能进一步了解那些被遗忘的历史人物、事件，亦或能深入了解复杂的历史进程，并对历史研究提出新解。希望国会图书馆相关部门存藏的手稿文献能帮助他们在各自的研究领域均有斩获。

關鍵字

美国国会图书馆 ； 中日战争

並列摘要

The Manuscript Division, the Asian Division, the Prints &. Photograph Division, and the Humanities & Social Sciences Division of the Library of Congress hold valuable manuscript materials related to the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945). Using the Library of Congress Manuscript Division Finding Aid (http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/f-aids/mssfa.html), researchers can find numerous wartime correspondences, diaries, memos, telegrams, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and other related original document in 20 plus manuscript collections. Important among them are ＂Nelson Trusler Johnson Papers, 1887-1954,＂ ＂Owen Lattimore Papers, 1907-1997,＂ ＂ Harry Ervin Yanell Papers, 1875-1959,＂ ＂Henry Luce Papers, 1898-1967,＂ and ＂Clare Boothe Luce Papers, 1862-1988＂. These materials are very useful for scholars who conduct research on the Sino-Japanese War, the Sino-Japanese relations, the Sino-U.S. relations as well as the U.S.-Japanese relations during the tumultuous 1930s and 1940s. They are particularly crucial for researchers in the sense that they could help verify historical facts by comparison with other historical records. When doing research, Chinese scholars usually concentrate their attention more on Chinese or Japanese language sources than those in English. It is the author's sanguine expectation that Chinese scholars could make groundbreaking achievements in their respective academic fields by digging deep into the primary sources hosted at the Library of Congress so as to rediscover those forgotten or lesser known historical figures and events, which would certainly help them develop a more comprehensive understanding of this complex historical period under study.

並列關鍵字

Library of Congress ； Sino-Japanese War