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

Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2001]
Copyright Date: ©2001
Physical Description: xii, 210 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Lary, Diana and MacKinnon, Stephen R.

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Series

Contemporary Chinese studies

Contents

Burn, kill, rape, and rob : military atrocities, warlordism, and anti-warlordism in republican China / Edward A. McCord -- The pacification of Jiading / Timothy Brook -- Atrocities in Nanjing : searching for explanations / Yang Daqing -- A ravaged place : the devastation of the Xuzhou region, 1938 / Diana Lary -- Refugee flight at the outset of the anti-Japanese war / Stephen MacKinnon -- 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 / Chang Jui-te -- Between martyrdom and mischief : the political and social predicament of CCP war widows and veterans, 1949-66 / Neil J. Diamant.

Subject(s)

War and society—China—History—20th century
Atrocities—China—History—20th century
China—Social conditions—1912-1949
China—Social conditions—1949-

ISBN

0774808403

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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