Beyond Suffering

James Flath is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China. Norman Smith is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Guelph and author of Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation.

Contributors: Timothy Brook, Blaine Chiasson, James Flath, Colin Green, Chang Jui-te, Diana Lary, Bernard Hung-kay Luk, Edward A. McCord, M. Colette Plum, Norman Smith, Michael Szonyi, Alexander Woodside, and Victor Zatsepine.

Rana Mitter, editor of Ruptured Histories: War and Memory in Post-Cold War Asia:
This is a very powerful volume, which sheds light on a variety of topics that scholarship, particularly in English, does not sufficiently cover – the wartime bombing of China, Russian imperialism in northeastern China, and the makeup of the Nationalist army during wartime. With its focus on the social history of warfare in China, Beyond Suffering makes a major contribution to the field.