Scars of War

The Impact of Warfare on Modern China

Edited by Diana Lary & Stephen MacKinnon
Categories: History, Military History, World History, Regional & Cultural Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774808408, 222 pages, July 2001
Paperback : 9780774808415, 222 pages, November 2001
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774841986, 222 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774850063, 222 pages, October 2007

Table of contents

Introduction / Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon

1. Burn, Rape, Kill and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism and
Anti-Warlordism in Republican China / Edward McCord

2. The Pacification of Jiading / Timothy Brook

3. Atrocities in Nanjing: Searching for Explanations / Yang
Daqing

4. Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938 /
Diana Lary

5. Refugee Flight at the outset of the Sino-Japanese War /
Stephen MacKinnon

6. The Politics of Commemoration / Chang Jui-te

7. Between Martyrdom and Mischief / Neil Diamant

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

A forceful look at the long-term social and psychological impact of
warfare on modern China’s civilian population.

Description

Throughout its modern history, China has suffered from immense
destruction and loss of life from warfare. During its worst period
of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45),
millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modern
war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. Hundreds of
massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China
itself. The focus of this original hisotry is on the social and
psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country.