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Author Qiu, Peipei, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.535 QUI    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5352 Q14    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5351 QUI    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.5351 QIU    Check Shelf
Description 254 pages : illustrations, photographs, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
"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
Subject Comfort women -- China -- History -- Sources.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Personal narratives, Chinese.
Service, Compulsory non-military -- Japan -- History -- Sources.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Chinese.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Women -- China.
Added Author Zhiliang, Su, author
Lifei, Chen, author.
ISBN 0199373892 (paperback)
9780199373895 (paperback)
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