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Intimate Communities
Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
其他書名
Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945
出版Univ of California Press, 2018-10-23
主題History / Asia / China
ISBN05203004679780520300460
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tatvDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.