Women and Politics in Wartime China

Women and Politics in Wartime China
Author: Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367664220

Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China, where their political engagement, knowledge-making, and network-building in support of 'national resistance and reconstruction' (kangzhan jianguo) unfolded. By examining the emergence, development, integration, and transformation of these networks as an unsettled, fragmented process - a process that lasted through the extended wars and upheavals in China from the 1930s to the 1950s and that moves beyond party ideologies and geopolitical borders, the book seeks to explore the dynamics of war, politics, and gender in the broader context of the Second World War.

Echoes of Chongqing

Echoes of Chongqing
Author: Danke Li
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252034899

The voices of ordinary women in China's War of Resistance against Japan

Women and Politics in Wartime China

Women and Politics in Wartime China
Author: Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351624652

Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China, where their political engagement, knowledge-making, and network-building in support of 'national resistance and reconstruction' (kangzhan jianguo) unfolded. By examining the emergence, development, integration, and transformation of these networks as an unsettled, fragmented process - a process that lasted through the extended wars and upheavals in China from the 1930s to the 1950s and that moves beyond party ideologies and geopolitical borders, the book seeks to explore the dynamics of war, politics, and gender in the broader context of the Second World War.

Prosperity's Predicament

Prosperity's Predicament
Author: Isabel Brown Crook
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442225750

This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that Isabel Crook began in 1940, the book provides an unprecedented history of Chinese rural life during the war with Japan. It is an essential resource for all scholars of contemporary China.

Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China

Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China
Author: Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2009-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226401944

Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
Author: Louise Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-04-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1107146038

Explores China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies, shedding new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation.

Women, War, Domesticity

Women, War, Domesticity
Author: Nicole Huang
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2005-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047406931

This book studies a burgeoning middlebrow culture championed and sustained by a group of women writers, editors, and publishers who began their careers in Shanghai in the early 1940s when the city entered into an era of total occupation by the Japanese.

Park Statue Politics

Park Statue Politics
Author: THOMAS J. LAY WARD (WILLIAM D.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-02-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910814505

Numerous academics have researched Japan's dehumanizing comfort women system that, for decades, forced innocents into sexual slavery. Since 2010 a campaign has been in place to proliferate comfort women memorials in the United States. These memorials now span from New York to California and from Texas to Michigan. They recount only the Korean version of this history, which this text finds incomplete. They do not mention that, immediately following World War II, American soldiers also frequented Japan's comfort women stations. They say nothing of how, to the present day, GIs continue to patronize Asian women and girls organized in brothels near their barracks. The Korean narrative also ignores the significant role that Koreans played in recruiting women and girls into the system. Intentionally or not, comfort women memorials in the United States promote a political agenda rather than transparency, accountability and reconciliation. This book explains, critiques, and expands on the competing state and civil society narratives regarding the dozen memorials erected in the United States since 2010 to honor female victims of the comfort women system established and maintained by the Japanese military from 1937 to 1945.

Gender, Politics, and Democracy

Gender, Politics, and Democracy
Author:
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804768399

This is the first exploration of women's campaigns to gain equal rights to political participation in China. The dynamic and successful struggle for suffrage rights waged by Chinese women activists through the first half of the twentieth century challenged fundamental and centuries-old principles of political power. By demanding a public political voice for women, the activists promoted new conceptions of democratic representation for the entire political structure, not simply for women. Their movement created the space in which gendered codes of virtue would be radically transformed for both men and women.

Women's Experiences of the Second World War

Women's Experiences of the Second World War
Author: Mark J. Crowley
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783275871

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.