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Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, "Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945" (U California Press, 2018)

New Books in East Asian Studies

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Military Nursing - Women in the Military Nursing Field

The military nurses of the 1930s and 1940s were exceptional women. They had to prove themselves in a very hard setting, she says. "They would back each other up when they were getting tired or lagging behind" She hopes future scholarship will piece together their story.

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