Echoes of Chongqing - 9780252076749
Un libro in lingua di Danke Li edito da Univ of Illinois Pr, 2009
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This collection of annotated oral histories records the personal stories of twenty Chinese women who lived in the wartime capital of Chongqing during China's War of Resistance against Japan during World War II. By presenting women's remembrances of the war, this study examines the interplay between oral history and traditional historical narrative, public discourse, and private memories. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways, some of them active in the communist resistance and others trying to support families or pursue educations in the face of wartime upheaval. Their stories demonstrate that the War of Resistance had two faces: one presented by official propaganda and characterized by an upbeat unified front against Japan, the other a record of invisible private stories and a sobering national experience of death and suffering. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Echoes of Chongqing
- Sottotitolo: Women in Wartime China
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Danke Li
- Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
- Collana: Univ of Illinois Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '09
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Women Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 China Chongqing Women China Chongqing History 20th century
- Pagine: 215
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0252076745
- EAN-13: 9780252076749