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Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938-1944

A City at War
  • ISBN-13: 9780739196830
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
  • By Pingchao Zhu
  • Price: AUD $263.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/12/2015
  • Format: Hardback 282 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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This book examines the development of wartime culture in the city of Guilin, Guangxi Province, in southwestern China during a major part of the country's war of resistance against Japanese invasion between 1938 and 1944. This study challenges existing historiography on China's wartime culture at three levels. First, the Guangxi warlord group played a crucial role in maintaining regional security, providing a liberalized political environment for wartime cultural activities and facilitating wartime nationalist-communist relations at both local and national levels. Second, wartime culture was more literary than political and it reflected a powerful intellectual vigor that was an indispensable component of China's war efforts. Intellectuals of different social and political backgrounds were their own "organic" selves feeling no pressure to come to intellectual consensus in literary production. Third, wartime culture was characterized by the active participation of many international groups, political organizations, and foreign individuals. The literary works produced in Guilin between 1938 and 1944 clearly reflected a combination of Chinese national and international anti-fascist and anti-military sentiment. Chinese literary masterpieces were translated into different foreign languages and noted foreign literature and political works were introduced to Chinese audiences through various cultural and political exchange programs in the city.
Chapter 1: Regional Politics: The Guangxi Warlords and the Guangxi System at Work Chapter 2: Political Culture: The Guangxi Warlords and the Chinese Communist Party Chapter 3: War in Fiction and Poetry Chapter 4: Paper Bullets Can Also Annihilate the Enemy: Journals, Newspapers, and Plays Chapter 5: International Features of Wartime Culture
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