TY  - BOOK
AU  - Li,Danke
TI  - Echoes of Chongqing: women in wartime China 
SN  - 9780252090547
AV  - DS777 .E246 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
KW  - Women
KW  - China
KW  - Chongqing
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Oral history
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: History, women, and China's war of resistance against Japan --; part 1. The war and gender's social roles --; Prologue --; Students --; A Xiajiang woman --; A doctor's wife --; A girl of the ZZEB --; A teacher of the ZZEB --; A woman from a rich and powerful family --; Women from poor peasant families --; part 2. The war and gender's economic impact --; Prologue --; Daughters --; A tailor's wife --; An abandoned housewife --; A Minsheng employee --; A Yuhua textile factory worker --; A woman of the Songji Experimental Zone --; part 3. The war and gender's political impact --; Prologue --; A Communist woman working for the XYCZFZW --; A student revolutionary --; A Jiuguohui woman --; An underground CCP member --; part 4. Women, memory, and China's war of resistance against Japan --; Epilogue; 2; b
N2  - 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. 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. 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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