Scars of War : The Impact of Warfare on Modern China Hardback
Edited by Diana Lary, Stephen MacKinnon
Part of the Contemporary Chinese Studies series
Hardback
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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages, 8 b&w photos, 7 tables, 3 maps
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/07/2001
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- ISBN:9780774808408
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:222 pages, 8 b&w photos, 7 tables, 3 maps
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:01/07/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774808408
