TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnes,Nicole Elizabeth
TI  - Intimate Communities
SN  - 9780520970868
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History / Asia
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - When China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout the country. In the end, China not only survived the war but also 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/7234ab6b-98df-472e-9f85-56ec2d49dafe
ER  -