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Living and Working in Wartime China (Hardcover)
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Living and Working in Wartime China (Hardcover)
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Covering the years of Japanese invasion during World War II from
1937 to 1945, this essay collection recounts Chinese experiences of
living and working under conditions of war. Each of the regimes
that ruled a divided China—occupation governments, Chinese
Nationalists, and Chinese Communists—demanded and glorified the
full commitment of the people and their resources in the
prosecution of war. Through stories of both everyday people and
mid-level technocrats charged with carrying out the war, this book
brings to light the enormous gap between the leadership’s demands
and the reality of everyday life. Eight long years of war exposed
the unrealistic nature of elite demands for unreserved commitment.
As the political leaders faced numerous obstacles in material
mobilization and retreated to rhetoric of spiritual resistance, the
Chinese populace resorted to localized strategies ranging from
stoic adaptation to cynical profiteering, articulated variously
with touches of humor and tragedy. These localized strategies are
examined through stories of people at varying classes and levels of
involvement in living, working, and trying to work through the war
under the different regimes. In less than a decade, millions of
Chinese were subjects of disciplinary regimes that dictated the
celebration of holidays, the films available for viewing, the
stories told in tea houses, and the restrictions governing the
daily operations and participants of businesses—thus impacting
the people of China for years to come. This volume looks at the
narratives of those affected by the war and regimes to understand
perspectives of both sides of the war and its total outcomes.
Living and Working in Wartime China depicts the brutal
micromanaging of ordinary lives, devoid of compelling national
purposes, that both undercut the regimes’ relationships with
their people and helped establish the managerial infrastructure of
authoritarian regimes in subsequent postwar years.
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