Beyond Suffering
Recounting War in Modern China
Will be published approx. on 1. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-7748-1956-5 (ISBN)
Description
China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through muchof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never beenclear understanding of how wartime suffering has defined the nation andshaped its people.
In Beyond Suffering, a distinguished group of historians ofmodern China look beyond the geopolitical aspects of war to explore itssocial, institutional, and cultural dimensions. The chapters in Part 1,"Society at War," reveal how militarization and war canboth structure and destabilize society, while those in Part 2,"Institutional Engagement," show how institutions and thepeople they represent can become pawns in larger power struggles.Lastly, Part 3, "Memory and Representation," examines thevarious media, monuments, and social controls by which war has beenmemorialized.
Based on fragmented accounts of poorly understood incidents,Beyond Suffering pieces together a fuller picture of themultiple fronts on which wars in modern China have been fought,experienced, and remembered.
In Beyond Suffering, a distinguished group of historians ofmodern China look beyond the geopolitical aspects of war to explore itssocial, institutional, and cultural dimensions. The chapters in Part 1,"Society at War," reveal how militarization and war canboth structure and destabilize society, while those in Part 2,"Institutional Engagement," show how institutions and thepeople they represent can become pawns in larger power struggles.Lastly, Part 3, "Memory and Representation," examines thevarious media, monuments, and social controls by which war has beenmemorialized.
Based on fragmented accounts of poorly understood incidents,Beyond Suffering pieces together a fuller picture of themultiple fronts on which wars in modern China have been fought,experienced, and remembered.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Vancouver
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
5 b&w photos, 2 maps, 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7748-1956-5 (9780774819565)
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James Flath is an associate professor in theDepartment of History at the University of Western Ontario and authorof The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural NorthChina. Norman Smith is an associate professor inthe Department of History at the University of Guelph and author ofResisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the JapaneseOccupation.
Contributors: Timothy Brook, Blaine Chiasson, JamesFlath, Colin Green, Chang Jui-te, Diana Lary, Bernard Hung-kay Luk,Edward A. McCord, M. Colette Plum, Norman Smith, Michael Szonyi,Alexander Woodside, and Victor Zatsepine.
Contributors: Timothy Brook, Blaine Chiasson, JamesFlath, Colin Green, Chang Jui-te, Diana Lary, Bernard Hung-kay Luk,Edward A. McCord, M. Colette Plum, Norman Smith, Michael Szonyi,Alexander Woodside, and Victor Zatsepine.
Content
Introduction / James Flath and Norman Smith
Part 1: Society at War
1 Writing andRemembering the Battle against Opiates in Manchukuo / NormanSmith
2 War,Schools, China, Hong Kong: 1937-49 / Bernard Hung-kay Luk
3 BombsDon't Discriminate? Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in theAir-Raid-Shelter Experiences of the Wartime Chongqing Population /Chang Jui-te
4 Militarization and Jinmen (Quemoy) Society, 1949-92 / MichaelSzonyi
Part 2: Institutional Engagement
5 TheBlagoveshchensk Massacre of 1900: The Sino-Russian War and GlobalImperialism / Victor Zatsepine
6 Victims andVictimizers: Warlord Soldiers and Mutinies in Republican China /Edward A. McCord
7 Turning BadIron into Polished Steel: Whampoa and the Rehabilitation of the ChineseSoldier / Colin Green
8 Orphans inthe Family: Family Reform and Children's Citizenship during theAnti-Japanese War, 1937-45 / M. Colette Plum
Part 3: Memory and Representation
9 ControllingSoldiers: The Memory Scars of Late Imperial China / AlexanderWoodside
10 Chinese Savages andChinese Saints: Russians and Chinese Remember and Forget the BoxerUprising in 1920s China / Blaine Chiasson
11 Setting Moon and RisingNationalism: Lugou Bridge as Monument and Memory / JamesFlath
12 War and Remembering:Memories of China at War / Diana Lary
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Part 1: Society at War
1 Writing andRemembering the Battle against Opiates in Manchukuo / NormanSmith
2 War,Schools, China, Hong Kong: 1937-49 / Bernard Hung-kay Luk
3 BombsDon't Discriminate? Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in theAir-Raid-Shelter Experiences of the Wartime Chongqing Population /Chang Jui-te
4 Militarization and Jinmen (Quemoy) Society, 1949-92 / MichaelSzonyi
Part 2: Institutional Engagement
5 TheBlagoveshchensk Massacre of 1900: The Sino-Russian War and GlobalImperialism / Victor Zatsepine
6 Victims andVictimizers: Warlord Soldiers and Mutinies in Republican China /Edward A. McCord
7 Turning BadIron into Polished Steel: Whampoa and the Rehabilitation of the ChineseSoldier / Colin Green
8 Orphans inthe Family: Family Reform and Children's Citizenship during theAnti-Japanese War, 1937-45 / M. Colette Plum
Part 3: Memory and Representation
9 ControllingSoldiers: The Memory Scars of Late Imperial China / AlexanderWoodside
10 Chinese Savages andChinese Saints: Russians and Chinese Remember and Forget the BoxerUprising in 1920s China / Blaine Chiasson
11 Setting Moon and RisingNationalism: Lugou Bridge as Monument and Memory / JamesFlath
12 War and Remembering:Memories of China at War / Diana Lary
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Contributors