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Redefining Wartime Chongqing: International capital of a global power in the making, 1938–46*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

VINCENT K. L. CHANG  and
YONG ZHOU
VINCENT K. L. CHANG
Affiliation:
College of History and Cultural Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Email: [email protected]
YONG ZHOU
Affiliation:
College of History and Cultural Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This article examines the historical role and legacy of the foreign establishment in China's temporary capital Chongqing during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan and the Second World War. This extraordinary episode, lasting from 1938 to 1946, ushered in a new era for China's foreign diplomacy and laid the foundation for its rise to world-power status. Placing Chongqing at the very heart of this epochal chapter in modern Chinese history, this article describes the major events, trends, and actors that directly or indirectly were instrumental to China's wartime transformation from a partitioned, de facto colony to a first-rate global power with a permanent seat among the ‘Big Five’. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, this article presents fresh perspectives on a near-forgotten episode of China's war experience. Moving beyond the traditional typecasting of ‘Chungking’ as a primitive backwater in China's remote hinterland, this article reappraises wartime Chongqing as a major international centre at the spearhead of global change and as an important cradle of the modern power that China is today.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , May 2017 , pp. 577 - 621
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An earlier version of this article was presented at the Fifth International Conference on the Joint Research of the Sino-Japanese War, held at Chongqing, China, in September 2013. The authors like to thank the participants to the conference and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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19 Soon after the British pioneer and merchant Archibald J. Little in 1898 had successfully navigated the first steamship beyond the gorges to Chongqing, foreign gunboats appeared on the upper reaches of the Yangtze. The first to send their warships to Chongqing were the British, whose HMS Woodcock and HMS Woodlark called at the inland port in 1900, followed by the French gunboat Olry in 1901, the German SMS Vaterland in 1907, the Japanese Fushimi in 1911, and the American USS Palos in 1914. Tolley, K., Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1971, pp. 50, 264Google Scholar.

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21 Foreign missionaries appeared in Chongqing well before its designation as treaty port, probably as early as in the first half of the seventeenth century. By 1890, there were already six Christian missions in the city: the Roman Catholic Mission (since 1753), the China Inland Mission (since 1874), the Methodist Episcopal Mission (since 1882), the National Bible Society of Scotland (since 1882), the Friends Foreign Mission Association (since 1886), and the London Missionary Society (since 1887). In 1892, the Canadian Methodist Mission (later United Church of Canada Mission) arrived in Chongqing. Except for the London Mission, which in 1910 was taken over by the Canadian Methodist Mission, all these foreign missions were still present in Chongqing by the time the war broke out. In 1937, there were approximately 85 foreign missionaries in the greater Chongqing area, comprising the central Yuzhong peninsula, the north bank of the Jialing River, and the south bank of the Yangtze. Blakiston, T. W., Five Months on the Yang-tsze, John Murray, London, 1862, p. 211 Google Scholar; Little, A. J., Through the Yang-tse Gorges—Or, Trade and Travel in Western China, Sampson Low, London, 1888, pp. 231–2Google Scholar, 245, 256, 308; Veals, H., ‘The churches of Chungking’ and ‘Chungking chronology’, in The West China Missionary News, vol. XL, no. 5, May 1939 (‘Special Chungking Number’), pp. 199–204 Google Scholar; Chongqing Central City Districts Annals, pp. 9–10, 654; Chongqing Foreign Affairs Annals, pp. 1–3.

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29 Only the German, Soviet Russian, and United States of America ambassadors were permanently based in Wuhan. In addition, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands posted lower-ranking representatives in Wuhan, while the heads of their respective missions remained in Beijing and Shanghai. Thus, of the 22 embassies and legations comprising China's foreign diplomatic body in 1938, only eight maintained some level of official representation in Wuhan. See Dutch National Archives, NA 2.05.90/161 (letter dated 13 June 1938 from the Dutch minister to China at Beiping, G. W. Baron de Vos van Steenwijk, to the Dutch Foreign Minister, pp. 8–9); DNA 2.05.90/159, 2.05.90/951 (letters dated 30 July and 19 August 1938 from the Dutch legation secretary at Chongqing, H. Bos, to the Dutch minister to China at Beiping, G. W. Baron de Vos van Steenwijk).

30 Ibid.

31 Dutch National Archives, NA 2.05.90/159 (letter dated 19 August 1938 from the Dutch legation secretary at Chongqing, H. Bos, to the Dutch minister to China at Beiping, G. W. Baron de Vos van Steenwijk, p. 2).

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38 In early 1946, the foreign diplomatic corps in Chongqing comprised 18 embassies (Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, Iran, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, the Soviet Union, Turkey, the United States of America), three legations (Australia, Portugal, Sweden), and one agency-general (India). See Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, Liste Diplomatique, January 1946.

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78 R. H. van Gulik, unpublished autobiography, China Years: March 1943–May 1946, p. 1. The relevant section of these memoirs, written in English, have been included in his Dutch biography (of which an English translation is currently in the process of being prepared); see Barkman, C. D. and de Vries-van der Hoeven, H., Een Man van Drie Levens: Biografie van Diplomaat, Schrijver, Geleerde Robert van Gulik [A Man of Three Lives: Biography of Diplomat, Writer and Scholar, Robert van Gulik], Forum, Amsterdam, 1995, pp. 113–14Google Scholar.

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80 Z. Shen, Juntong neimu [The Inside Story of the Military Statistics Bureau], Wenshi ziliao chubanshe, Beijing, 1984, pp. 84–5; Wakeman, Spymaster, pp. 336, 521.

81 Chinese Year Book 1938–1939, p. 704; MacKinnon, S. R. and Friessen, O., China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1987, pp. 36–8Google Scholar.

82 Chinese Year Book 1943, p. 677–9; China Handbook 1943, p. 705; China Handbook 1944, p. 423; China Handbook 1945, pp. 510–11; Sichuan Province Foreign Affairs Annals, 2005, p. 191; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, p. 48; Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, p. 106.

83 China Handbook 1943, pp. 704–5; Peck, Two Kinds of Time, pp. 60–1.

84 China Handbook 1945, p. 694; Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, pp. 110–17.

85 Ibid., pp. 90, 93–6, 139–40; Hahn, China to Me, pp. 117, 169, 176.

86 White, In Search of History, pp. 72–5, 78, 93, 106.

87 Hahn, China to Me, pp. 122–3, 148–52, 169; Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, pp. 85, 109; Farmer, Shanghai Harvest, pp. 95, 120–1, 222–5; ‘Buzz Farmer writes of China's war’, The Daily News, Perth, Australia, 28 May 1945; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, p. 57; Epstein, My China Eye, pp. 299–319, 337–8.

88 Hahn, China to Me, pp. 121–2, 136; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, pp. xv–xxvii; French, P., Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand: The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai, Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2006, p. 238 Google Scholar.

89 For a contemporary introduction in the foreign press of China's wartime capital, see J. L. McCartney, ‘Citadel of old China’, New York Times, 16 January 1938. For an extensive contemporary account of the changes that came over Chongqing during the 1930s, see Spencer, J. E., ‘Changing Chungking: the rebuilding of an old Chinese city’, Geographical Review, vol. 29, no. 1, January 1939, pp. 46–60 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. An impressive series of rare photographs of wartime Chongqing by Carl Mydans can be found in ‘Chungking: free China's much-bombed capital fights on’, Life, 31 March 1941, pp. 93–101.

90 When the Chungking Hostel was demolished by Japanese bombs in 1940, Hahn moved into the Chialing House for a short while, before finally evacuating to the ‘safety zone’ on the South Bank. Hahn, China to Me, pp. 117, 182–4, 186–9; Yardley, Chinese Black Chamber, p. 176.

91 Hahn, China to Me, p. 134.

92 Epstein, My China Eye, pp. 131–4; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, pp. 40, 49–51, 79–82, 103–8; French, Carl Crow, pp. 242–3; Moreira, P., Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn, Potomac Books, Dulles, 2007, pp. 127–31Google Scholar.

93 Epstein, My China Eye, pp. 131–4; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, pp. 40, 49–51, 79–82, 103–8; French, Carl Crow, pp. 242–3; Moreira, Hemingway on the China Front, pp. 127–31.

94 Karaka, Chungking Diary, p. 26.

95 White, In Search of History, pp. 169–74; Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, p. 113; Service, State Department Duty in China, p. 176; MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, p. 17; H. R. Luce, ‘China to the mountains’, Life, 30 June 1941; ‘Luce back from China’, New York Times, 8 June 1941. In the years between 1927 and 1955, the ‘Gissimo’ appeared on the cover of Time ten times, incidentally together with the ‘Missimo’, as was the case in January 1937 when the couple featured as ‘Man & Wife of the Year’.

96 MacKinnon and Friessen, China Reporting, pp. 67–78.

97 Ibid., pp. 68–9.

98 Chinese Year Book 1944–1945, p. 812; China Handbook 1945, pp. 511, 609; ‘Press group in China’, New York Times, 19 May 1943; ‘Newsmen in Chungking elect’, New York Times, 17 November 1944; Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, pp. 141–5.

99 Tong and Mih, Chiang Kai-shek's Teacher, p. 144; Epstein, My China Eye, pp. 171–3; Menon, Twilight in China, p. 67; White, In Search of History, pp. 239–81.

100 The Foreign Correspondents’ Club is presently located in Hong Kong at No. 2 Lower Albert Road, Central. The club's official website can be viewed online at http://fcchk.org [accessed 27 February 2017]. On the club's history and 70th anniversary, see also J. Manthorpe, ‘From Chongqing to Ice House Hill: Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents’ Club marks 70 years as a journalists’ haven from Asia's wars’, The Vancouver Sun, 9 June 2013.