Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945
Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth
Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 - Oakland University of California Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (326 p.)
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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.
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English
luminos.59 9780520300460
10.1525/luminos.59 doi
History
Asian history
nurses China War of Resistance against Japan necropolitics gender emotional labor emotional communities national community public health medicine midwifery hygienic modernity
Intimate Communities : Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937–1945 - Oakland University of California Press 2018 - 1 electronic resource (326 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
luminos.59 9780520300460
10.1525/luminos.59 doi
History
Asian history
nurses China War of Resistance against Japan necropolitics gender emotional labor emotional communities national community public health medicine midwifery hygienic modernity