Chinese comfort women : testimonies from Imperial Japan's sex slaves / Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Qiu, Peipei, 1954-

Contributor:

Su, Zhiliang.

Chen, Lifei.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comfort women--China--History--Sources.

Comfort women.

Service, Compulsory non-military--Japan--History--Sources.

Service, Compulsory non-military.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Accountability and redress for Imperial Japan's wartime "comfort women" have provoked international debate in the past two decades. While personal narratives of "comfort station" survivors have been published in English, there has been a dearth of information about the women forced into service in these stations in Mainland China - a major theatre of the Asia-Pacific War. Through personal narratives from twelve Chinese "comfort station" survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed 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.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Figures and Tables""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part 1: The War Remembered""; ""1 Japan�s Aggressive War and the Military “Comfort Women� System""; ""2 The Mass Abduction of Chinese Women""; ""3 Different Types of Military “Comfort Stations� in China""; ""4 Crimes Fostered by the “Comfort Women� System""; ""Part 2: The Survivors� Voices""; ""5 Eastern Coastal Region""; ""6 Warzones in Central and Northern China""; ""7 Southern China Frontlines""; ""Part 3: The Postwar Struggles""; ""8 Wounds That Do Not Heal""

""9 The Redress Movement""""10 Litigation on the Part of Chinese Survivors""; ""11 International Support""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 2, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7748-2546-4

OCLC:

923448990