現代中国に残る抗日戦の影響<br>Scars of War : The Impact of Warfare on Modern China (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

現代中国に残る抗日戦の影響
Scars of War : The Impact of Warfare on Modern China (Contemporary Chinese Studies)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 222 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780774808415
  • DDC分類 303.6609510904

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. The focus of the book is the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country.

Full Description

Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immensedestruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods ofwarfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millionsof civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modernwar-related death and suffering has remained hidden. The Rape ofNanking is beginning to be known, but hundreds of other massacres arestill unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. Thefocus of The Scars of War is the social and psychological, not theeconomic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated withcontemporary photographs and woodblock prints. Each chapter isintroduced by a traditional Chinese saying (cheng-yu) on warfare.

Contents

Introduction / Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon

1. Burn, Rape, Kill and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism andAnti-Warlordism in Republican China / Edward McCord

2. The Pacification of Jiading / Timothy Brook

3. Atrocities in Nanjing: Searching for Explanations / YangDaqing

4. Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938 /Diana Lary

5. Refugee Flight at the outset of the Sino-Japanese War /Stephen MacKinnon

6. The Politics of Commemoration / Chang Jui-te

7. Between Martyrdom and Mischief / Neil Diamant

Bibliography

Glossary

Index