TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lary,Diana
TI  - The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945 
T2  - New Approaches to Asian History
SN  - 9780511761898 (ebook)
AV  - HN733 .L37 2010
U1  - 940.53/51 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761898
ER  -