Title The soldier image and state-building in modern China, 1924-1945 / Yan Xu

Published Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 5, 2018) Subject China. Lu jun -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century Zhongguo guo min dang. Lu jun jun guan xue xiao -- History Zhongguo guo min dang -- History Zhongguo gong chan dang -- History SUBJECT China. Lu jun fast Zhongguo gong chan dang fast Zhongguo guo min dang fast Zhongguo guo min dang. Lu jun jun guan xue xiao fast Subject Soldiers -- China -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century Military education -- Political aspects -- China -- History -- 20th century Public opinion -- China -- History -- 20th century Civil-military relations -- China -- History -- 20th century Nationalism -- China -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. HISTORY -- Asia -- General. Civil-military relations Nationalism Politics and government Public opinion SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024169 Subject China Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813176758 0813176751 9780813176765 081317676X

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