Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945

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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.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0520300467
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 23, 2018
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780520300460
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520300460
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.77 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #932,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #247 in Asian History (Books) #253 in Health Care Delivery (Books)
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