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Author Lary, Diana

Title Scars of War : The Impact of Warfare on Modern China
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Scars of War""; ""Introduction""; ""Ravaged by a string of wars""; ""1 Burn, Kill, Rape, and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism, and Anti- Warlordism in Republican China""; ""The people are plunged into an abyss of misery""; ""2 The Pacification of Jiading""; ""The people are plunged into the depths of suffering""; ""3 Atrocities in Nanjing: Searching for Explanations""; ""The family is destroyed and the people are lost and gone""; ""4 A Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938""; ""Destitute and homeless""
""5 Refugee Flight at the Outset of the Anti- Japanese War""""The turmoil and chaos of war""; ""6 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""; ""Separated from one�s wife, one�s children scattered""; ""7 Between Martyrdom and Mischief: The Political and Social Predicament of CCP War Widows and Veterans, 1949- 66""; ""Glossary""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
Notes Print version record
Subject War and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
Atrocities -- China -- History -- 20th century
Atrocities
Social conditions
War and society
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
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author MacKinnon, Stephen
ISBN 9780774850063
077485006X