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The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945
Abstract
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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- Authors
- Lary, D.
- Affiliations
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Lary, Diana
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2010-07-25
- OpenAlex
- W4253389728
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- 3.88
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › European history and politics
- Keywords
- Second Sino-Japanese War, civilian experience of war, war damage, displacement, social disintegration, economic disintegration, Japanese invasion of China, modern Chinese history, survivor testimony
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