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Book Review: Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders by Vivienne Xiangwei Guo
Reviewed by Dr Diya Gupta, Lecturer in Public History, City St George’s, University of LondonAbingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 9781138080645, £119.48 hardback“I do not know what is leftist and what is rightist. I have always believed in peace, independence, democracy and freedom for my country, no matter whether it means that I am a leftist or rightist.” (p. 194) These words were spoken in 1947 by the Chinese female politician Tan Tiwu, who served as both a Kuomintang (KMT) legislator