Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves - Rilegato

Qiu, Peipei; Zhiliang, Su; Lifei, Chen

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0774825448 ISBN 13: 9780774825443

Casa editrice: Univ of British Columbia Pr, 2013

Riassunto

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.

This book will be important reading for students and scholars of war crimes, history, Asian Studies, and Women’s Studies; it will also appeal to legal experts, human rights activists, scholars of oral history, and readers interested in the Second World War.

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L'autore:

Peipei Qiu is professor of Chinese and Japanese, Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Chair in Modern Languages, and director of the Asian studies program at Vassar College. Su Zhiliang is professor of history, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Communication, and director of the Research Center for Chinese "Comfort Women" at Shanghai Normal University. Chen Lifei is professor of journalism, chair of the department of publishing and media studies, and deputy director of the Center for Women’s Studies at Shanghai Normal University.

Product Description:

Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the "comfort station" experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war. Through personal narratives from twelve survivors, this book reveals the unfathomable atrocities committed against women during the war and closely correlates the proliferation of the comfort stations with the progression of Japan's military offensive. This book uses investigative reports, local histories, and witness testimony to put a human face on China's war experience and on the injustices suffered by hundreds of thousands of Chinese women.

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• Editore: Univ of British Columbia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0774825448
• ISBN 13: 9780774825443
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254