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Abstract
During the War of Resistance against Japan, Chinese Communist women “fought wherever the party directed them, showing quiet devotion,” says the Zhongyuan nühi (Women Soldiers of the Central Plain), a collection of personal narratives of Communist women in the war. Quiet because most of them worked away from the battlefields in the CCP occupied areas as cadres, or performed various jobs in organizing mass movements, propaganda and artwork, in media, education or factories, and in hospitals; quiet also because they asked neither recognition nor rewards for their devotion in the war or after. However, “quiet” here also implies a marginalized role of women; women's voices in the War of Resistance were silenced.