Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Published
23 October 2018
Pages
324
ISBN
9780520300460

Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

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When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites’ conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.

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