Abstract:

The studies of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression have achieved a multi-dimensional breakthrough in the exploration of historical materials and the innovation of perspectives. In terms of historical materials, the re-examination of folk oral history, video records, transnational declassified files, and “familiar materials” such as officers’ diaries, newspapers and periodicals, is pushing the research towards multi-source mutual evidence. From the research perspective, the studies of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression have also turned from a single military and political narrative to the organic integration of regional, transnational, socio-economic and cultural dimensions, highlighting the national character and world significance of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and profoundly revealing the deep interaction mechanism between war and society. War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is not only a battle for national survival, but also provides a key fulcrum for the revival of the popularization of national concepts and the continuous inheritance of Chinese civilization. Only by integrating multi-source historical materials and multi-disciplinary perspectives can we reach the deep texture of the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Key words: War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, new historical materials, new perspective, national construction