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Echoes of Chongqing:

Women in Wartime China

ISBN-13: 9780252076749
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Danke Li
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Local release date: 14/05/2010
Format: Paperback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 232 pages Weight: 380g
Categories: Sociology & anthropology [JH]

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Google Preview: 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.; Acknowledgments; Introduction: History, Women, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; Part I: 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 II: 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 III: 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 IV: Women, Memory, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; ''This insightful study reveals the complex nature of the changes brought by war not only on gender relations, but also on Chinese society, culture, politics, and economics. A major contribution to the study of Chinese history.'' Christina Kelley Gilmartin, author of Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s; Google Preview content

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