“新中国正在诞生”: 美军观察组眼中的延安精神

Abstract

Abstract: During the Anti-Japanese War, the Communist Party of China (CPC) got visited by the Dixie Mission at Yan’an, which marked the start of the Party’s foreign affairs. The Mission were actively involved in common people’s life while in China, worked to collect intelligence concerning the War and investigated revolutionary bases carefully, such efforts promoting the overseas spread of the revolution culture, the Yan’an Spirit in particular, of China. By interpreting the memoirs of some Mission members, such as David D. Barrett, John Paton Davies, Jr., John G. Colling and Wilbur J. Peterkin, this essayreproduces the Yan’an spirit of the Anti-Japanese War soldiers and civilians who centered on firm communist beliefs, emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, selfreliance, hard work, and wholehearted service to the people, and explores the dual role of the US military observation group in consolidating the world's anti-fascist front and establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States at the end of the Anti-Japanese War and during the Cold War. The memoirs by these mission members prove to be valuable in the sense of overseas revolution reference, and fashion a great image of CPC on an international basis. They deserve better protection and publicity.