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Title Beyond Suffering : Recounting War in Modern China / edited by James Flath and Norman Smith
Published Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 306 pages) : map
Series Contemporary Chinese studies
Contemporary Chinese studies.
Contents Preface : Lisbon, Xuzhou, Auschwitz : suffering as history / Timothy Brook -- Introduction / James Flath and Norman Smith -- Society at war. Writing and remembering the battle against opiates in Manchukuo / Norman Smith ; War, schools, China, Hong Kong : 1937-1949 / Bernard Hung-kay Luk ; Bombs don't discriminate : class, gender, and ethnicity in the air-raid-shelter experiences of the wartime Chongqing population / Chang Jui-te ; Militarization and Jinmen (Quemoy) society, 1949-92 / Michael Szonyi -- Institutional engagement. The Blagoveshchensk Massacre of 1900 : the Sino-Russian War and global imperialism / Victor Zatsepine ; Victims and victimizers : warlord soldiers and mutinies in Republican China / Edward A. McCord ; Turning bad iron into polished steel : Whampoa and the rehabilitation of the Chinese soldier / Colin Green ; Orphans in the family : family reform and children's citizenship during the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-45 / M. Colette Plum -- Memory and representation. Controlling soldiers : the memory scars of late Imperial China / Alexander Woodside ; Chinese savages and Chinese saints : Russians and Chinese remember and forget the Boxer Uprising in 1920s China / Blaine Chiasson ; Setting moon and rising nationalism : Lugou Bridge at monument and memory / James Flath ; War and remembering : memories of China at war / Diana Lary
Summary This collection moves beyond the geopolitical sphere to examine the multiple fronts - personal, social, and institutional - on which wars in modern China have been fought, experienced, and remembered
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Glossary in English and Chinese
Print version record
Subject War and society -- China -- History -- 20th century
War and society -- China -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
War and society
Krieg
Gesellschaft
Kollektives Gedächtnis
SUBJECT China -- History, Military -- 20th century
China -- History, Military -- 19th century
Subject China
China
Genre/Form History
Military history
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Flath, James A.
Smith, Norman (Associate Professor)
LC no. cn2010907363
ISBN 9780774819558
0774819553
9780774819572
077481957X
1283245531
9781283245531
0774819561
9780774819565