Nicola Spakowski: »Mit Mut an die Front« Die Militärische Beteiligung von Frauen in der kommunistischen Revolution Chinas 1925-1949 [ISBN 978-3-412-20294-1] XI, 420 Seiten. Gebunden. Böhlau: Köln 2009. € 49,90 [D] / € 51,30(„Courageously to the front“. Women’s military participation in the Chinese Communist revolution, 1925-1949, Cologne: Böhlau 2009)
Women’s military participation in the Chinese Communist revolution was unprecedented not only in participating numbers but also with regard to the broad range of military roles these women assumed. Their roles included supporting positions in transportation, medical services, political propaganda, mass mobilization, the production of necessary wartime materials and participation in combat. Some women even established a career as guerrilla leaders. The book is the first comprehensive study of the military participation of Chinese women in the Communist revolution between 1925 and 1949. It examines the motivations behind the different cohorts of women to join the war and traces the patterns of their participation in military activities throughout the various phases and contexts of the revolution. The book highlights the interdependence between the Party, the military and the Communist women’s movement during the war as well as the dynamic interaction taking place between the military leaders and the women in defining the role of women within the context of the war.
http://www.boehlau.de/978-3-412-20294-1.htm
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