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Summary:

"The Soldier Image and State-Building in Modern China, 1924-1945 is the first study in English to explore the ways in which the figure of the soldier was employed to advance the ideological and cultural agendas of a variety of citizen groups during the first half of the twentieth century in China. Government authorities, cadets at the Whampoa Military Academy (the "West Point of China"), elites, urban professionals, intellectuals, activists, writers and students resisted, collaborated with, or questioned the heroic ideal of the soldier promoted by the Nationalist government. Author Yan Xu casts a wide net, examining military training records, political propaganda, field reports, newspapers, magazines, government documents, memoirs, and novels. In novels and articles, women and teachers worked against the heroic ideal without openly challenging the military, emphasizing the soldier's suffering, emotional needs, and poor education and thereby promoting their own importance as caretakers and educators. Students and young people urged enlistment and idealized the warrior-hero, but also managed to effectively criticize the government by organizing soldier relief work to combat government corruption. Xu demonstrates how the CCP's strategy of building bonds between soldiers and peasants and humanizing heroes was ultimately a more successful political strategy than the GMD's approach of elevating soldiers as model citizens"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Training Model Soldiers at the Whampoa Military Academy
• 2. Enlisting Citizens in the Military Mobilization of the Nationalist State
• 3. Wartime Soldier Support by Urban Intellectuals and Professionals
• 4. Creating Gendered Images of the Soldier Figure in Literary Works
• 5. Construction of the Soldier Ideal by Educated Youths
• 6. Army-People Bond in Mass Culture in Wartime Yan'an.

Author/Creator:

Xu, Yan (History teacher) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The soldier image and state-building in modern China, 1924-1945 [by Xu, Y.]

Subjects:

China Lu jun — Public opinion — History — 20th century

Zhongguo guo min dang — Lu jun jun guan xue xiao — History

Zhongguo guo min dang — History

Zhongguo gong chan dang — History

Soldiers — China — Public opinion — History — 20th century

Military education — Political aspects — China — History — 20th century

Public opinion — China — History — 20th century

Civil-military relations — China — History — 20th century

Nationalism — China — History — 20th century

China — Politics and government — 1912-1949

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 5, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

UA837 .X785 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780813176758 (electronic bk.)
0813176751 (electronic bk.)
9780813176765 (electronic bk.)
081317676X (electronic bk.)
9780813176741 [Invalid]
0813176743 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1077769736

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5611092 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp15884577