The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945

by Diana Lary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521144108
• ISBN13: 9780521144100
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"