The scars of war : the impact of warfare on modern China / edited by Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lary, Diana.

MacKinnon, Stephen R.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies.

Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society--China--History--20th century.

War and society.

Atrocities--China--History--20th century.

Atrocities.

China--Social conditions--1912-1949.

China.

China--Social conditions--1949-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modern war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. The Rape of Nanking is beginning to be known, but hundreds of other massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. The focus of The Scars of War is the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and woodblock prints. Each chapter is introduced by a traditional Chinese saying (cheng-yu) on warfare.

Contents:

Intro; 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 WarThe 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-11157-8

9786613111579

0-7748-5006-X

OCLC:

70749690