China's War Reporters : : The Legacy of Resistance against Japan / / Parks M. Coble.
When Japan invaded China in 1937, Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria, convinced their countrymen, led by Chiang Kai-shek, would triumph. Parks Coble shows that correspondents underplayed China's defeats for fear of undercutting morale and then saw their writings disappear and th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones, 1 map |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Map: Occupied areas in 1944 -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. EUPHORIA The War They Wanted -- 2. COPING WITH RETREAT Mobilizing for Long-Term Re sis tance -- 3. COPING WITH ATROCITY Fostering the Unity of the People -- 4. WARTIME MOVEMENT Survival, Displacement, and Mobility -- 5. DESPAIR AND BITTER VICTORY The Growing Civil War -- 6. LEGACIES OF WAR Forgetting and a New Remembering -- 7. RECOVERING THE MEMORY OF THE WAR Can the Past Serve the Present? -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Glossary -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Summary: | When Japan invaded China in 1937, Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria, convinced their countrymen, led by Chiang Kai-shek, would triumph. Parks Coble shows that correspondents underplayed China's defeats for fear of undercutting morale and then saw their writings disappear and themselves denounced after the Communists came to power. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674425538 9783110649826 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674425538 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Parks M. Coble. |