Scars of War

The Impact of Warfare on Modern China

Diana Lary editor Stephen MacKinnon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of British Columbia Press

Published:1st Nov '01

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A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact ofwarfare on modern China’s civilian population.

A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of warfare on modern China’s civilian population.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.

"A forceful book... These essays make concrete the abstractly evoked "patriotic" sacrifice of millions of Chinese people, offering tough history as an antidote to the easy oblivion of official memory and underscoring the deep human and social scars of war. - Carol Gluck, George Samson Professor of History, Columbia University

ISBN: 9780774808415

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 380g

222 pages