Book ID: CBB566090684

Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 (2018)

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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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Review Mirela David (2020) Review of "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945". Social History of Medicine (pp. 667-669). unapi

Review Wayne Soon (2019) Review of "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 630-631). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Strocchia, Sharon T.
Shen, Grace Yen
Djordjevic, Darja
Dechert, Andre
Rands, Gianetta
Kinnebrock, Susanne
Concepts
Health care
Women in medicine
National identity
Public health
Science and politics
Healers
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
Renaissance
21st century
20th century
Medieval
Places
China
Italy
United Kingdom
Rwanda
Papua New Guinea
Shanghai (China)
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Academia Sinica
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