Intimate communities : wartime healthcare and the birth of modern China, 1937-1945 / Nicole Elizabeth Barnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--China--History--20th century.

Public health.

Women and war--China--History--20th century.

Women and war.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

Public health--Political aspects--China.

Public Health.

Armed Conflicts.

Public health--Political aspects.

History.

China.

Medical Subjects:

Public Health.

Armed Conflicts.

China.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 304 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a curious strength. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites' conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country that transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue in triptych

Introduction

Policing the public in the new capital

Appearing in public : the relationships at the heart of the nation

Healing to kill the true internal enemy

Authority in the halls of science : women of the wards

Mothers for the nation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975- Intimate communities.

ISBN:

9780520300460

0520300467

OCLC:

1029780655