China and Japan

傅高义以一位高龄学者的视野，把中日一千五百年的往来当作一个整体来讲述：从六世纪日本吸收中国文明的核心，到近代两国在西方冲击下的不同遭遇与彼此角力。这本书最耐人寻味之处，在于它不满足于罗列史实，而是反复追问一个现实问题——两个地理上closest、历史上最亲密的国家，为何在当代彼此好感不足一成，甚至互为敌意转移的靶子？读者印象最深的，是近现代那一章：甲午一败之后，中国把日本当作现代化的教科书拼命研究，留日留学之风盛极一时，而日本却把对中国的研究做得更透。这种

Ezra F. Vogel is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous books on Japan and China, including Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and named Best Book by The Economist, the Washington Post, and Financial Times. It was also a Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Gates Notes Top Read. The Japanese edition of Vogel’s classic work Japan as Number One topped the bestseller list there for many years.