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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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Main Author: Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (303 pages).
Awards:American Historical Association Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, 2019.
ISBN:9780520971868
Access:Open Access