Diana Lary

The Chinese People at War

Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. As the author suggests in this 2010 interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949.

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Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Asian History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780521144100
• ISBN-10: 0521144108
• Artikelnr.: 29984742

Autorenporträt

Diana Lary is Professor Emerita in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She has spent many years working on modern Chinese history, teaching the subject to thousands of students and writing or editing six books and numerous articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the human cost of a war; 1. The high tide of war, 1937; 2. Defeat and retreat, 1938; 3. Stalemate and transformation, 1939-41; 4. Grim years, 1942-4; 5. Turning points, 1944-5; 6. The immediate aftermath of the war, 1945-6; Conclusion.

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Introduction: the human cost of a war
1. The high tide of war, 1937
2. Defeat and retreat, 1938
3. Stalemate and transformation, 1939-41
4. Grim years, 1942-4
5. Turning points, 1944-5
6. The immediate aftermath of the war, 1945-6
Conclusion.

Rezensionen

"An outstanding book in the depth of its research on the suffering of the Chinese people during the War of Resistance, and also in its coverage of the entire war period from different regional perspectives... There is simply no comparable work of this scope on this topic." - Edward A. McCord, George Washington University