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'To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts': The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China.
- Source :
- Cultural & Social History; Jul2022, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p265-282, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Contributing to a growing literature on the transnational history of 'collaborationism' under wartime occupation, this paper examines 'Rural Pacification' – the counterinsurgency campaigns that were prosecuted from 1941 to 1943 in Japanese-occupied China – from the perspective of culture. In this paper, I argue that, despite being initiated as a military project, the 'political work' of Rural Pacification, and particularly the use of cultural production to spread government ideas to rural communities in the Lower Yangtze Delta, marked a crucial part of these campaigns. Rural Pacification was not purely about the eradication of communist resistance in China, but also about 'cleansing hearts'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- LANDSCAPES
CULTURAL production
COMMUNITIES
LITERARY criticism
HEART
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14780038
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Cultural & Social History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 159177802
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2069205