Beyond suffering recounting war in modern China /

"China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been clear understanding of how wartime suffering defined the nation and shaped its people.

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Other Authors / Creators:Flath, James A.
Smith, Norman (Associate Professor)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:English
Language notes:Glossary in English and Chinese.
Imprint: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2011]
Serier:Contemporary Chinese studies.
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Online adgang:Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.
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Summary:"China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been clear understanding of how wartime suffering defined the nation and shaped its people.
In Beyond Suffering, a distinguished group of historians of modern China look beyond the geopolitical aspects of war to explore its social, institutional, and cultural dimensions, from child rearing and education to massacres and warlord mutinies. Though accounts of war-inflicted suffering are often fragmented or politically motivated, the authors show that they are crucial to understanding the multiple fronts on which wars are fought, experienced, and remembered. The chapters in Part 1, "Society at War," reveal how war and militarization can both structure and destabilize society, while those in Part 2, "Institutional Engagement," show how institutions and the people they represent can become pawns in larger power struggles. Lastly, Part 3, "Memory and Representation," examines the various media, monuments, and social controls by which war has been memorialized.
Although many of the conflicts described in Beyond Suffering barely registered against the sweeping backdrop of Chinese history, such conflicts bring us closer to understanding war, militarism, and suffering in modern China."--Pub. desc.
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.
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297) and index.
ISBN:9780774819572 (online)
9781283245531 (online)
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James Flath is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China. Norman Smith is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph and author of Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation.

Contributors: Timothy Brook, Blaine Chiasson, James Flath, Colin Green, Chang Jui-te, Diana Lary, Bernard Hung-kay Luk, Edward A. McCord, M. Colette Plum, Norman Smith, Michael Szonyi, Alexander Woodside, and Victor Zatsepine.