Women and Politics in Wartime China

Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group, this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical, social, cultural and political spaces of wartime China, where their political engagement, knowledge-making, and network-building in support of 'national resistance and reconstruction' ( kangzhan jianguo ) unfolded. By examining the emergence, development, integration, and transformation of these networks as an unsettled, fragmented process - a