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Title The scars of war : the impact of warfare on modern China / edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
Contemporary Chinese studies. 1206-9523
Contents Burn, kill, rape, and rob : military atrocities, warlordism, and anti-warlordism in republican China / Edward A. McCord -- The pacification of Jiading / Timothy Brook -- Atrocities in Nanjing : searching for explanations / Yang Daqing -- A ravaged place : the devastation of the Xuzhou region, 1938 / Diana Lary -- Refugee flight at the outset of the anti-Japanese war / Stephen MacKinnon -- The politics of commemoration : a comparative analysis of the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration in mainland China and Taiwan of the victory in the anti-Japanese war / Chang Jui-te -- Between martyrdom and mischief : the political and social predicament of CCP war widows and veterans, 1949-66 / Neil J. Diamant
Summary Annotation Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. The focus of this book is the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and woodblock prints
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject War and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
Atrocities -- China -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Atrocities
Social conditions
War and society
Auswirkung
Krieg
Oorlogvoering.
Oorlogsslachtoffers.
Guerre -- Aspect social -- Chine -- 20e siècle.
Atrocités -- Chine -- 20e siècle.
Victimes de guerre -- Chine -- 20e siècle.
Krig -- sociala aspekter -- Kina -- 1900-talet.
Krigsoffer -- Kina -- 1900-talet.
Krigsförbrytelser -- Kina -- 1900-talet.
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024183
China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602
Subject China
China
Chine -- Conditions sociales -- 1949- ...
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Lary, Diana.
MacKinnon, Stephen R.
LC no. 2001430792
ISBN 0774808403
9780774808408
077485006X
9780774850063
1283111578
9781283111577
9786613111579
6613111570