UID:
almahu_9949863551002882
Format:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520971868
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites' conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue in Triptych -- Introduction -- 1 Policing the Public in the New Capital -- 2 Appearing in Public: The Relationships at the Heart of the Nation -- 3 Healing to Kill the True Internal Enemy -- 4 Authority in the Halls of Science: Women of the Wards -- 5 Mothers for the Nation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Personal Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth Intimate Communities Berkeley : University of California Press,c2018 ISBN 9780520300460
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
URL:
https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
