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Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China

By Diana Lary , Stephen MacKinnon

Book information

Publisher
UBC Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0774808403, 9780774808408
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13348917 bytes)
Series
Text and Studies in Religion
Pages
222\228
Time added
2015-10-09 14:46:38

Description

Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millions of civilians lost their lives. But in China, the story of modern war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. The Rape of Nanking is beginning to be known, but hundreds of other massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. The focus of Scars of War is the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated with contemporary photographs and woodblock prints. Each chapter is introduced by a traditional Chinese saying (cheng-yu) on warfare.

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