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When China\u2019s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population.\nNicole Elizabeth Barnes\u2019s book,\xa0Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945\xa0(University of California Press, 2018),\xa0argues that women who worked as military and civilian nurses, doctors, and midwives during this turbulent period built the national community, one relationship at a time. In a country with a majority illiterate, agricultural population that could not relate to urban elites\u2019 conceptualization of nationalism, these women used their work of healing to create emotional bonds with soldiers and civilians from across the country. These bonds transcended the divides of social class, region, gender, and language.\nThis book has won two major awards, William H. Welch Award by American Association for the History of Medicine in 2020, and Joan Kelly Memorial Prize by American Historical Association in 2019.\nA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press\u2019s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\nNicole Elizabeth Barnes\xa0is Assistant Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University.\nLinshan Jiang\xa0is Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are modern and contemporary literature, film, and popular culture in mainland China, Taiwan and Japan; trauma and memory studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer studies; as well as comparative literature and translation studies.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies