Women and Politics in Wartime China - Networking Across Geopolitical Borders

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.

List of contents

1.Introduction 2. From Shanghai to Wuhan: Enlargement of the Spaces 3. From Wuhan to Chongqing: Cooperation and Expansion 4. In the Face of a Sudden Political Change: Divisions, Departures and Dislocations 5. A ‘Left-wing’ Women’s Network: Survival and Development 6. A Local Story: Li Wenyi’s Network in Kunming 7. From Chongqing to Beijing: Post-war Political Reorganisation 8. Conclusion

About the author

Vivienne Xiangwei Guo is lecturer of modern Chinese history at the University of Exeter, UK.

Summary

This book concerns Chinese women intellectuals’ political networking across party lines and geo-political borders during the extended wars in China of the 1930s and 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Vivienne Guo, Vivienne (King''s College London) Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei (University of Exeter Guo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664220
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66422-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Asia / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Politics & government, Second World War, Politics and government, Asian History, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General