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Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Danke Li


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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. By presenting women's remembrances of the war, this study examines the interplay between oral history and traditional historical narrative, public discourse, and private memories. The women interviewed came from differing social, economic, and educational backgrounds and experienced the war in a variety of ways, some of them active in the communist resistance and others trying to support families or pursue educations in the face of wartime upheaval. Their stories demonstrate that the War of Resistance had two faces: one presented by official propaganda and characterized by an upbeat unified front against Japan, the other a record of invisible private stories and a sobering national experience of death and suffering. The accounts of how women coped, worked, and lived during the war years in the Chongqing region recast historical understanding of the roles played by ordinary people in wartime and give women a public voice and face that, until now, have been missing from scholarship on the war.

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  • Title Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China
  • Author Danke Li
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date 2009-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780252076749 / 0252076745
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - Women, Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - China -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009028082
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.535

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About the author

Danke Li is an associate professor of history at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

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