The Chinese People at War

Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945

Bibliographic Data

ID19901475
AuthorsDiana Lary (University of British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2010
Pages247
Publication date2010-07-25
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueChinese People at War (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511761898
OpenAlexW4253389728
Open LibraryOL25990677M
ISBN9780511761898
LanguageEN
Citations received21

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

Ancient history · China · Communism · Economic history · Interpretation (philosophy) · Political science · Power (physics) · Pretext · Resistance (ecology) · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1937-1945 · 1937-1949 · Krieg · Sino-Japanese War · Social aspects · Social conditions · Soziale Situation