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      • Diana Lary, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      25 July 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511761898
      9780521195065
      9780521144100
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761898
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 246 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
      Series:
      New Approaches to Asian History (6)
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Regional History after 1500
    Series:
    New Approaches to Asian History (6)
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    Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with survivors, and extracts from literature, she creates a vivid and highly disturbing picture of the havoc created by the war, the destruction of towns and villages, the displacement of peoples, and the accompanying economic and social disintegration. As the author suggests in this 2010 interpretation of modern Chinese history, far from stemming the spread of communism from the USSR, which was the Japanese pretext for invasion, the horrors of the war, and the damage it created, nurtured the Chinese Communist Party and helped it to win power in 1949.

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    "An outstanding book in the depth of its research on the suffering of the Chinese people during the War of Resistance, and also in its coverage of the entire war period from different regional perspectives... There is simply no comparable work of this scope on this topic." - Edward A. McCord, George Washington University

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