Chunmei Du | Everyday Encounter

之間書評 In-Between Review Podcast · May 20, 2026 · 20m

Note：This excerpt is taken from the book Everyday Occupation: American Soldiers and Chinese Civilians after World War II （Cambridge University Press， November 27，2025）by Chunmei Du, Associate Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Footnotes omitted.This introduction Everyday Encounter provides historical and theoretical framings for this book. It situates the American military presence in postwar China within two interconnected contexts of China’s civil war confrontations and America’s global occupation. It engages with existing historiographies by locating China in the American empire…