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Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures viii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. 1 The Red Cross Movement 1
7. 2 Certainty, compassion and the ingrained arrogance of humanitarians 27
8. 3 The Americans lead the way? 47
9. 4 Intertwined stories of war humanitarianism 63
10. 5 The early history of the Red Cross Society of China and its relation to the Red Cross Movement 81
11. 6 Failure to launch 97
12. Part II Turning points
13. 7 Challenging the colonial and the international 115
14. 8 Realignment in the aftermath of war 130
15. 9 The ‘British Red Cross still exists’, 1947–1974 148
16. 10 Feed the hungry – no matter what? 164
17. Part III The Red Cross’s modus operandi
18. 11 ‘A cog in the great wheel of mercy’ 181
19. 12 Coming of age in the crucible of war 199
20. 13 The 1938 International Committee of the Red Cross Conference 213
21. 14 ‘£50,000 is too small a fine to pay’ 230
22. 15 The British Red Cross Society and the ‘parcels crisis’ of 1940–1941 245
23. 16 The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections 264
24. 17 A humanitarian and national obligation 282
25. Index 296