Chinese People At War - Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945

Informationen zum Autor Diana Lary is Professor Emerita in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. She has spent many years working on modern Chinese history, teaching the subject to thousands of students and writing or editing six books and numerous articles. Klappentext The tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Zusammenfassung Diana Lary tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. She creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Lary, Diana (University of British Columbia Lary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521195065
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19506-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: New Approaches to Asian Histor
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous