TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnes,Nicole Elizabeth
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945 
SN  - 9780520971868
AV  - RA527 .B37 2018
U1  - 362.10951 23
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Public health
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - China
KW  - Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945
KW  - Women and war
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Open Access
N2  - "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 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 that transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63414/
ER  -