Chinese sojourners in wartime Raj, 1942-1945 /
"Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. Chinese soldiers, government officials, professionals, and merchants flocked to India for training, business opportunities, retreat, and rehabilitation. This...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. Chinese soldiers, government officials, professionals, and merchants flocked to India for training, business opportunities, retreat, and rehabilitation. This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concern to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments. This book provides a subaltern perspective on the history of modern India-China relations that has been dominated by accounts of elite cultural interaction and geopolitical machination"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-161). |
| ISBN: | 9780192697462 0192697463 9780192697455 0192697455 9780191966590 0191966592 |