Women and Politics in Wartime China

<p>Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical social cultural and political spaces of wartime China where their political engagement knowledge-making and network-building in support of 'national resistance and reconstruction' (<i>kangzhan jianguo</i>) unfolded. By examining the emergence development integration and transformation of these networks as an unsettled fragmented process - a process that lasted through the extended wars and upheavals in China from the 1930s to the 1950s and that moves beyond party ideologies and geopolitical borders the book seeks to explore the dynamics of war politics and gender in the broader context of the Second World War.</p>