“新中国正在诞生”: 美军观察组眼中的延安精神

“New China Is Being Born”：The Yan’an Spirit from the Perspective of the Dixie Mission

抗战期间，中国共产党在延安接访美军观察组，由此开创了外交事业的序幕。这个团组在华期间积极融入军民生产生活、收集抗战情报、深入考察革命根据地，客观上促成了我国革命文化尤其是延安精神的海外传播。通过解读观察组包瑞德、戴维斯、高林和彼得金等部分成员的回忆录，再现抗战军民以坚定共产主义信念、解放思想实事求是、自力更生艰苦奋斗、全心全意为人民服务为核心的延安精神，发掘美军观察组在抗战末期以及冷战期间对世界反法西斯战线的巩固与中美建交的双重推动作用。 这些回忆录是宝贵的海外红色文献，塑造了中国共产党高大正直的国际形象，理应得到更好的保护与宣传。

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.