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“Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism 1937-1940”
| This paper offers a brief assessment of how wartime relief work organized by women in Shanghai, Wuhan, and Chongqing affected their pursuit of political rights and concrete social/economic benefits for women. This study argues that the War’s refugee crises thrust women not only into leadership positions, but also became the arena where female activists with diverse political loyalties put aside their differences, and attempted to engender a certain force in China’s state-building efforts. While earlier studies of the War period subsumed women’s activities under the topic of ‘Guomindang versus Chinese Communist Party’ rivalry, this enquiry attempts to situate women’s wartime experiences and contributions into a broader framework of modernization and politicization theories.
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