The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945: 6 (New Approaches to Asian History, Series Number 6) - Hardcover

Lary, Diana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521195063 ISBN 13: 9780521195065

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"An outstanding book in the depth of its research on the suffering of the Chinese people during the War of Resistance, and also in its coverage of the entire war period from different regional perspectives... There is simply no comparable work of this scope on this topic." - Edward A. McCord, George Washington University

Book Description

Diana Lary tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. She creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war and the accompanying economic and social disintegration.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521195063
• ISBN 13: 9780521195065
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 246