LEADER 01951nam 22004453a 450 001 9910976786003321 005 20250123130413.0 010 $a9780520970868 010 $a9780520971868 010 $a0520971868 024 8 $a10.1525/luminos.59 035 $a(CKB)37386140100041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)7234ab6b-98df-472e-9f85-56ec2d49dafe 035 $a(Perlego)2329551 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937386140100041 100 $a20250123i20182020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIntimate Communities$fNicole Elizabeth Barnes 210 1$aOakland :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 08$a9780520300460 311 08$a0520300467 330 $aWhen China's War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout the country. In the end, China not only survived the war but also emerged from the trauma with a curious strength. Intimate Communities argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites' conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country that transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language. 606 $aHistory$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Asia$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aHistory 615 7$aHistory / Asia 615 0$aHistory. 700 $aBarnes$b Nicole Elizabeth$01786843 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976786003321 996 $aIntimate Communities$94319174 997 $aUNINA