1st Edition
Women and Politics in Wartime China Networking Across Geopolitical Borders
By Vivienne Guo
Copyright 2019
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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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,... Read more
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
Biography
Vivienne Xiangwei Guo is lecturer of modern Chinese history at the University of Exeter, UK.
