Chinese comfort women : testimonies from imperial Japan's sex slaves / Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei.
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TextSeries: Oxford oral history seriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Description: xx, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0199373892 (paperback : acidfree paper)
- 0774825448 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 9780199373895 (paperback : acid-free paper)
- 9780774825443 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- Abduction -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Comfort women -- China -- Biography
- Comfort women -- China -- History
- Japanese -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Prostitution -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Sex crimes -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Women -- China
- Soldiers -- China -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Crimes against -- China -- History -- 20th century
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized rape, and these "comfort women" were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate.
Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors. In addition, their stories bring to light several previously hidden aspects of the comfort women system: the ransoms the occupation army forced the victims' families to pay, the various types of improvised comfort stations set up by small military units throughout the battle zones and occupied regions, and the sheer scope of the military sexual slavery-much larger than previously assumed. The personal narratives of these survivors combined with the testimonies of witnesses, investigative reports, and local histories also reveal a correlation between the proliferation of the comfort stations and the progression of Japan's military offensive.
The first English-language account of its kind, Chinese Comfort Women exposes the full extent of the injustices suffered by these women and the conditions that caused them.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index.
Part 1. The war remembered -- 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 -- Part 2. The survivors' voices -- Eastern coastal region -- Warzones in central and northern China -- Southern China frontlines -- Part 3. The postwar struggles -- Wounds that do not heal -- The redress movement -- Litigation on the part of Chinese survivors -- International support -- Epilogue.
From 1932 to 1945, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. This volume features the personal narratives of twelve women who were kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. In exposing previously hidden aspects of the system, it also exposes the full extent of the injustices suffered by these women, and the conditions that caused them.