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Chinese comfort women : testimonies from imperial Japan's sex slaves / Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei.
Van Pelt Library D810.C698 Q258 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Qiu, Peipei, 1954- author.
- Su, Zhiliang, author.
- Chen, Lifei, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary Chinese studies
- Contemporary Chinese studies, 1206-9523
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comfort women--China--History--Sources.
- Comfort women.
- Service, Compulsory non-military--Japan--History--Sources.
- Service, Compulsory non-military.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Personal narratives, Chinese.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
- History.
- Japan.
- China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Chinese.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Women--China.
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--China.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Chinese.
- Quelle.
- History.
- Sources.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 254 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- "Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. Yet there has been a dearth of first-hand accounts available in English from the women abducted and enslaved by the Japanese military in Mainland China -- the major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Chinese Comfort Women features the personal stories of the survivors of this devastating system of sexual enslavement. Offering insight into the conditions of these women's lives prior to and after the war, it points to the social, cultural, and political environments that prolonged their suffering. Through personal narratives from twelve Chinese "comfort station" survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and correlates the proliferation of "comfort stations" with the progression of Japan's military offensive. Drawing on investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony, Chinese Comfort Women puts a human face on China's war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Japan's Aggressive War and the Military "Comfort Women" System
- The Mass Abduction of Chinese Women
- Different Types of Military "Comfort Stations" in China
- Crimes Fostered by the "Comfort Women" System
- Eastern Coastal Region
- Warzones in Central and Northern China
- Southern China Frontlines
- Wounds That Do Not Heal
- The Redress Movement
- Litigation on the Part of Chinese Survivors
- International Support.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chinese American Librarians Association Annual Best Book Award - Non-fiction, Best Book, 2014
- Other Format:
- Qiu, Peipei, 1954- Chinese comfort women.:
- ISBN:
- 9780774825443
- 0774825448
- 9780774825450
- 0774825456
- OCLC:
- 853309052
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