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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1060178663 Title: The soldier image and state-building in modern China, 1924-1945 Author: Yan Xu, (History teacher) Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2019. ©2019 ISBN/ISSN: 9780813176741 0813176743 OCLC:1060178663

  
  

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The soldier image and state-building in modern China, 1924-1945

Author:	Yan Xu, (History teacher)
Publisher:	Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2019. ©2019
Series:	Asia in the new millennium.
Edition/Format:	Print book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"--  Read more...
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. View all subjects
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