Echoes of Chongqing : women in wartime China

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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. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrou...

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Main Author: Li, Danke, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2010
Subjects:
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > Women.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > China > Chongqing.
Women > China > Chongqing > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Chongqing > Interviews.
Oral history > China > Chongqing.
Chongqing (China) > Biography.
Chongqing (China) > History, Military > 20th century.
Chongqing (China) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: History, women, and China's war of resistance against Japan
  • part 1. The war and gender's social roles
  • Prologue
  • Students
  • A Xiajiang woman
  • A doctor's wife
  • A girl of the ZZEB
  • A teacher of the ZZEB
  • A woman from a rich and powerful family
  • Women from poor peasant families
  • part 2. The war and gender's economic impact
  • Prologue
  • Daughters
  • A tailor's wife
  • An abandoned housewife
  • A Minsheng employee
  • A Yuhua textile factory worker
  • A woman of the Songji Experimental Zone
  • part 3. The war and gender's political impact
  • Prologue
  • A Communist woman working for the XYCZFZW
  • A student revolutionary
  • A Jiuguohui woman
  • An underground CCP member
  • part 4. Women, memory, and China's war of resistance against Japan
  • Epilogue.

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