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"A forceful book... These essays make concrete the abstractly evoked "patriotic" sacrifice of millions of Chinese people, offering tough history as an antidote to the easy oblivion of official memory and underscoring the deep human and social scars of war. - Carol Gluck, George Samson Professor of History, Columbia University
Throughout its modern history China has suffered from immensedestruction and loss of life from warfare. In its worst periods ofwarfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millionsof civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modernwar-related death and suffering has remained hidden. The Rape ofNanking is beginning to be known, but hundreds of other massacres arestill unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. Thefocus of Scars of War is the social and psychological, not theeconomic, costs of war on the country. The book is illustrated withcontemporary photographs and woodblock prints. Each chapter isintroduced by a traditional Chinese saying (cheng-yu) on warfare.
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Librería: Frabjous Books, Calgary, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. xii, 210 pp. "These essays make concrete the abstractly evoked 'patriotic' sacrifice of millions of Chinese people." 2 b&w prints, 6 b&w photos, 3 maps. 5 pages of the intro have some pencil underlining, otherwise clean and bright. Nº de ref. del artículo: 017619
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