Relocation and dislocation: civilian, refugee, and military movement as factors in the disintegration of postwar China, 1945-49
This article argues that massive human displacement was one of the defining factors in China’s immediate postwar period (1945-49). It shows that at least three distinctive groups were dispersed during the wartime years and needed to be resettled after the war ended in August 1945: civilian refugees, administrators who had been relocated to the temporary capital at Chongqing, and troops transferred in anticipation of an upcoming civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists.