4 A Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables ix
4. Preface x
5. Introduction 3
6. Burn, Kill, Rape, and Rob: Military Atrocities, Warlordism, and Anti-Warlordism in Republican China 18
7. The Pacification of Jiading 50
8. Atrocities in Nanjing: Searching for Explanations 76
9. A Ravaged Place: The Devastation of the Xuzhou Region, 1938 98
10. Refugee Flight at the Outset of the Anti-Japanese War 118
11. The Politics of Commemoration: A Comparative Analysis of the Fiftieth-Anniversary Commemoration in Mainland China and Taiwan of the Victory in the Anti-Japanese War 136
12. Between Martyrdom and Mischief: The Political and Social Predicament of CCP War Widows and Veterans, 1949-66 162
13. Glossary 189
14. Bibliography 193
15. Contributors 203
16. Index 204