Echoes of Chongqing
Subtitle: women in wartime China
By: Danke Li.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252034893; 9780252076749
Subjects: Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Women; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Chongqing; Women -- China -- Chongqing -- History -- 20th century; Women -- China -- Chongqing -- Interviews; Oral history -- China -- Chongqing; Chongqing (China) -- Biography; Chongqing (China) -- History, Military -- 20th century; Chongqing (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Genres: Interviews; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: History, women, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; title: pt. 1. The war and gender's social roles; title: Prologue; title: Students; title: A Xiajiang woman; title: A doctor's wife; title: A girl of the ZZEB; title: A teacher of the ZZEB; title: A woman from a rich and powerful family; title: Women from poor peasant families; title: pt. 2. The war and gender's economic impact; title: Prologue; title: Daughters; title: A tailor's wife; title: An abandoned housewife; title: A Minsheng employee; title: A Yuhua textile factory worker; title: A woman of the Songji Experimental Zone; title: pt. 3. The war and gender's political impact; title: Prologue; title: A Communist woman working for the XYCZFZW; title: A student revolutionary; title: A Jiuguohui woman; title: An underground CCP member; title: pt. 4. Women, memory, and China's War of Resistance against Japan; title: Epilogue.