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Author Li, Danke, 1953-

Title Echoes of Chongqing : women in wartime China / Danke Li
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
©2010

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Contents Introduction: History, women, and China's war of resistance against Japan -- part 1. The war and gender's social roles -- Prologue -- Students -- A Xiajiang woman -- A doctor's wife -- A girl of the ZZEB -- A teacher of the ZZEB -- A woman from a rich and powerful family -- Women from poor peasant families -- part 2. The war and gender's economic impact -- Prologue -- Daughters -- A tailor's wife -- An abandoned housewife -- A Minsheng employee -- A Yuhua textile factory worker -- A woman of the Songji Experimental Zone -- part 3. The war and gender's political impact -- Prologue -- A Communist woman working for the XYCZFZW -- A student revolutionary -- A Jiuguohui woman -- An underground CCP member -- part 4. Women, memory, and China's war of resistance against Japan -- Epilogue
Summary This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways, some of them active in the communist resistance and others trying to support families or pursue educations in the face of wartime upheaval. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd
Subject Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Women
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Chongqing
Women -- China -- Chongqing -- History -- 20th century
Women -- China -- Chongqing -- Interviews
Oral history -- China -- Chongqing
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Oral history
Social conditions
Women
Japanisch-Chinesischer Krieg 1937-1945
Frau
SUBJECT Chongqing (China) -- Biography
Chongqing (China) -- History, Military -- 20th century
Chongqing (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject China -- Chongqing
Chongqing
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Interviews
Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019717320
ISBN 9780252090547
0252090543
9780252091735
0252091736
128302893X
9781283028936
9786613028938
6613028932