TY  - BOOK
AU  - Xu,Yan
TI  - The soldier image and state-building in modern China, 1924-1945
SN  - 9780813176758
AV  - UA837 .X785 2018eb
U1  - 355.10951/09041 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - China
KW  - Lu jun
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Zhongguo guo min dang
KW  - Lu jun jun guan xue xiao
KW  - Zhongguo gong chan dang
KW  - fast
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - Military education
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Opinion publique
KW  - Chine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire
KW  - Nationalisme
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Military
KW  - Other
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Military Science
KW  - Asia
KW  - General
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1912-1949
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Politicizing the soldier image in modern Chinese history -- Training model soldiers at the Whampoa Military Academy -- Enlisting citizens in the military mobilization of the nationalist state -- Wartime soldier support by urban intellectuals and professionals -- Creating gendered images of the soldier figure in literary works -- The construction of the soldier ideal by educated youths -- The army-people bond in mass culture in wartime Yan'an
N2  - "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"--
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