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• Title:Down with traitors : justice and nationalism in wartime China / Yun Xia.
  
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• Author/Creator:Xia, Yun, author.
  
• Published/Created:Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KNN4417 .X538 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Treason--Law and legislation--China--History.
  Treason--China--History.
  Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Collaborationists--China.
  Collaborationists--Legal status, laws, etc.--China.
  China--History--1937-1945.
  China--Politics and government--1937-1945.
  
• Description:ix, 267 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, "traitors to the Han Chinese"). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist regimes, who were perceived as threats to national security and public order, and other subgroups of hanjian-including economic, cultural, female, and Taiwanese hanjian. Built on previously unexamined code, edicts, and government correspondence, as well as accusation letters, petitions, newspapers, and popular literature, Down with Traitors reveals how the hanjian were punished in both legal and extralegal ways and how the anti-hanjian campaigns captured the national crisis, political struggle, roaring nationalism, and social tension of China's eventful decades from the 1930s through the 1950s.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780295742854 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  0295742852 hardcover ; alkaline paper
  9780295742861 paperback ; alkaline paper
  0295742860 paperback ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 From Epithet to Crime
  ch. 2 Arbiters of Justice in a Lawless State
  ch. 3 Political Economy of the Anti-hanjian Campaigns
  ch. 4 Engendering Contempt for Female Hanjian and Cultural Hanjian
  ch. 5 Punishing Hanjian beyond Chinese Borders.