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

"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 curious strength. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civil...

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Main Author: Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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505 0 |a Prologue in triptych -- Introduction -- Policing the public in the new capital -- Appearing in public : the relationships at the heart of the nation -- Healing to kill the true internal enemy -- Authority in the halls of science : women of the wards -- Mothers for the nation -- Conclusion. 
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