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Scars of War

The Impact of Warfare on Modern China

edited by Diana Lary & Stephen MacKinnon

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774841986
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774808415
    Publish Date
    Nov 2001
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774808408
    Publish Date
    Jul 2001
    List Price
    $95.00

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Throughout its modern history, China has suffered from immense destruction and loss of life from warfare. During its worst period of warfare, the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-45), millions of civilians lost their lives. For China, the story of modern war-related death and suffering has remained hidden. Hundreds of massacres are still unrecognized by the outside world and even by China itself. The focus of this original hisotry is on the social and psychological, not the economic, costs of war on the country.

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Contributor Notes

Diana Lary is a professor of history, affiliated with the Center for Chinese Research, at the University of British Columbia. Stephen MacKinnon is a professor of history at Arizona State University.