Down with traitors : justice and nationalism in wartime China / Yun Xia.
2017
KNN4417 .X538 2017 (Mapit)
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Down with traitors : justice and nationalism in wartime China / Yun Xia.
Imprint
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Description
ix, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Formatted Contents Note
From epithet to crime
Arbiters of justice in a lawless state
The political economy of the Anti-hanjian Campaigns
Engendering contempt for female hanjian and cultural hanjian
Punishing hanjian beyond Chinese borders
Epilogue: from crime to epithet.
Arbiters of justice in a lawless state
The political economy of the Anti-hanjian Campaigns
Engendering contempt for female hanjian and cultural hanjian
Punishing hanjian beyond Chinese borders
Epilogue: from crime to epithet.
Summary
Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, "traitors to the Han Chinese"). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist regimes, who were perceived as threats to national security and public order, and other subgroups of hanjian-including economic, cultural, female, and Taiwanese hanjian. Built on previously unexamined code, edicts, and government correspondence, as well as accusation letters, petitions, newspapers, and popular literature, Down with Traitors reveals how the hanjian were punished in both legal and extralegal ways and how the anti-hanjian campaigns captured the national crisis, political struggle, roaring nationalism, and social tension of China's eventful decades from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Note
Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, "traitors to the Han Chinese"). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist regimes, who were perceived as threats to national security and public order, and other subgroups of hanjian-including economic, cultural, female, and Taiwanese hanjian. Built on previously unexamined code, edicts, and government correspondence, as well as accusation letters, petitions, newspapers, and popular literature, Down with Traitors reveals how the hanjian were punished in both legal and extralegal ways and how the anti-hanjian campaigns captured the national crisis, political struggle, roaring nationalism, and social tension of China's eventful decades from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Available in Other Form
Online version: Xia, Yun. Down with traitors. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017
Call Number
KNN4417 .X538 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780295742854 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0295742852 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780295742861 paperback ; alkaline paper
0295742860 paperback ; alkaline paper
0295742852 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780295742861 paperback ; alkaline paper
0295742860 paperback ; alkaline paper
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