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001			on1141442704
003			OCoLC
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008			210223s2020 mau b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020005100
020			_a9780674984264 (hbk.)
020			_a0674984269 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1141442704
050			_aDS777.6 _b.M57 2020
100	1		_aMitter, Rana, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aChina's good war : _bhow World War II is shaping a new nationalism / _cRana Mitter.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _cc2020.
300			_a316 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: war, memory, and nationalism in China -- Hot war, cold war : China's conflicts, 1937-1978 -- History wars : how historical research shaped China's politics -- Memory, nostalgia, subversion : how China's public sphere embraced World War II -- Old memories, new media : wartime history online and onscreen -- From Chongqing to Yan'an : regional memory and wartime identity -- The Cairo Syndrome : World War II and China's contemporary international relations -- Conclusion: China's long postwar.
520			_a"Once sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links the reassessment of the war to China's rising nationalism. At home, Chinese use the war to shape conflicted identities; abroad the war with Japan is now treated as a Chinese victory, a founding myth for a people destined to shape the global order".
650		4	_aNationalism and collective memory _zChina.
650		4	_aSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 _xPublic opinion.
650		4	_aChinese _xAttitudes.
651		4	_aChina _xHistoriography.
651		4	_aChina _xCivilization _y1949-
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