WAR, VIOLENCE, AND WOMANHOOD: (Re)membering Women's Military Narratives in China's Revolution and Civil War.
In this ethnographic study, the author interviewed Chinese women aged 85 and older to explore their childhood and adolescent experiences of exile and military violence in the context of World War II and Chinese Civil War. Throughout the years of China's revolution and inter-party conflicts, ordinary...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 46; pp. 240 - 260 |
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