University of British Columbia Press
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves
9780774825443
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Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves
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 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.
Table of Contents
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; Selected Bibliography; Index