Embattled Glory

Veterans, Military Families, and the Politics of Patriotism in China, 1949-2007

Neil J. Diamant (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5766-6 (ISBN)

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This groundbreaking book offers the first in-depth, large-scale study of People's Liberation Army veterans and military families. Neil Diamant's penetrating examination of the treatment of PLA veterans in China opens a distinctive window onto Chinese patriotism, citizenship, and legitimacy. Using recently declassified archival documents and employing a comparative perspective, the book provides an unprecedented look at the 'everyday interactions' among veterans, military families, state officials, and ordinary citizens as they attempted to secure urban residence, jobs, spouses, medical care, and respect as patriots.

Neil J. Diamant is associate professor of Asian law and society and chair of the Department of Political Science at Dickinson College.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 To the City or Bust! Veterans and the Quest for Urban Citizenship Chapter 3 The Complications of Veteran Identities Chapter 4 The Job Front Chapter 5 Stuck in the State's Cement and Falling Through its Cracks: Veterans in Policy and Bureaucracy Chapter 6 Vulnerable Heroes: Veterans' Heath, Family and Sexuality Chapter 7 Military Families, the State and Community Chapter 8 Salt in the Wounds: Veterans in the Reform Era, 1978-2007 Chapter 9 Conclusion: Walter Reed, Iraq and China

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.1.2009
Reihe/Serie	State & Society in East Asia
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Gewicht	767 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7425-5766-9 / 0742557669
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-5766-6 / 9780742557666
Zustand	Neuware