China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	The long Civil War
	The four-year Civil War, 1945–1949
	The social effects of the Civil War
	Voices
	Theories
	Regions
	The damage of the Civil War
1 The social background to the Civil War
	Casualties and damage of the Resistance War
		Inflation
		Property
	The social effects of war
		Social levelling/elite upheaval
		Social polarisation
		Separations
	The psychosocial effects of war
	Biographies
		Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin
		The Gong sisters
		Lao She
		The Ballard family
2 Ending one war, beginning another
	Ending one war
		The defeated Japanese
		Chinese who had worked with the Japanese
		Confiscation and looting
		Occupation currencies
		Economic collapse
		Stranded foreigners
	Beginning another war
		Political polarisation
		The peace negotiations
		The start of fighting
		Manchuria
		Serious fighting
	War and society
		Getting home
		Reunions/separations
		Efforts to resume the old life
		Recovering property
		Demands for a new life
		Class struggle
		The situation of women
		Lack of change
		Enforced change
	Biographies
		Wen Yiduo
		Dong Zhujun
		The flight of Japanese civilians
		Chan Cheong-Choo
		Soldier families
3 Turning points
	Politics and the war
	Irredentism
		Fighting
		Hearts and minds
		The economy
	War and society
		Return migrations
		Destitution and social upheaval
		Disappearing elites
		Embryonic class warfare
		Women
		Children
		A lost world
	Biographies
		Qi Baishi
		Ding Ling
		Chen Lian, rehearsing a tragedy
		Ererba victims
		Liu Hulan
4 All-out war
	The course of the war
		Morale
		Inflation
		The flight of cultural artefacts
	War and society
		Missing people
		Rural revolution
		The death of a city
		Refugees
		Soldier families
		Overseas Chinese
		Generation divides
		Family separations: strategies and accidents
		Property and how to deal with it
	Biographies
		Chen Yonggui
		Fan Qishi
		China’s archaeologists
		The Yangs
		The Rong Family
5 Nearing the end
	The course of the war
		The HuaiHai Campaign
		The liberation/fall of Beiping
	The economy
	Culture
	Momentous choices
		Leaving
		Staying
		Turncoats, switchers and fengpai
		Refugee flows
	Social issues
		Women
		Children
		The elderly
		Social levelling
		Soldier family separations
		Social upheaval
	Biographies
		Lin Dai
		Wang Guangmei
		Wu Huawen
		He Siyuan
		Chen Yi
6 The end game
	Fighting
	The rout
		Social upheaval
		Women
		The young
	Departures and returns
		Flight
		Returns
		Flight and return
		Those who did not return
		Reunions in China
		The departure of foreigners
	Biographies
		Zhang Daqian
		Ji Chaoding
		Jakob Rosenfeld
		Du Yuming
		Nanxia ganbu
		Exile
7 Immediate outcomes
	The international impact
	The early revolution
	Social currents
		Refugees
		Soldiers
		Foreigners
		Continuing reunions and returns
		Migrations
		Separations
	Biographies
		Paul Lin
		Pu Yi
		Sir John Keswick
		Esther Winnington
		Wu Jianxiong
		Lung Ying-t’ai (Long Yingtai)
8 Social outcomes of the Civil War
	A class society
	Mainland social change
		Separations
		Separation from the dead
		Generation splits
		Property
		Rise in the status of women
		Widows and abandoned wives
		Children
		Military ascendancy
		Religion and ritual
		Movements
	Taiwan social change
	The Overseas Chinese social change
	Hong Kong social change
	Biographies
		Danwei people
		I.M. Pei (Bei Yuming)
		Ang Lee (Li An)
Conclusion
	Isolation
	Winners and losers
		Generations
	Accounts of the Civil War
		Official versions of the Civil War
	Memory
		Art and memory
		Trauma and ghosts
	Survival, resilience and resourcefulness
		Resilience
		Resourcefulness and flexibility
	Identities
		Cultural China
		The Chinese language
		Traditional and simplified characters
	Reunions and separations
	Two civil wars: the social outcomes
	Biographies
		Louis Cha
		Leaders’ children
		Descendants of revolutionaries
		Children of exiles
	Two last questions
Glossary
Index