中国人民の抵抗戦1937-1945年 The Chinese People at War : Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945 (New Approaches to Asian History)

Lary, Diana

Cambridge University Press（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 246 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521144100
• DDC分類 951.042

基本説明

New interpretation of the history and repercussions of China's world war with an emphasis on social history and the experiences of victims.

Full Description

Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. As the author suggests in this 2010 interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949.

Contents

Introduction: the human cost of a war; 1. The high tide of war, 1937; 2. Defeat and retreat, 1938; 3. Stalemate and transformation, 1939-41; 4. Grim years, 1942-4; 5. Turning points, 1944-5; 6. The immediate aftermath of the war, 1945-6; Conclusion.