Intimate communities wartime healthcare and the birth of modern China, 1937-1945
"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 civil...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
2018, [2018]
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780520300460 0520300467 0520971868 |