Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves (Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Tapa blanda

This is an important book that signals fundamental shifts in understandings of the Japanese military's use of "comfort women" in Asia during the Second World War. To date, most discussion of "comfort women," the English translation of the Japanese euphemism ianfu, has focused on roughly 200,000 Korean and Japanese nationals. This volume sheds light on the suffering of an approximately equal number of Chinese women who were forcibly drafted by the Japanese military and whose experiences were silenced for decades. It is the first English-language monograph to record the memories of Chinese women at the "comfort stations" and it does a fine job of introducing these important findings to international audiences..One of the great strengths of this work is the demonstration that these women's suffering continued long after the Japanese military was defeated and the war ended...Chinese Comfort Women does an excellent job of linking these women's lives to forces that darkened much of China's tortuous twentieth century yet remain far too little understood. -- Norman Smith, University of Guelph * Pacific Affairs *

This book fills a vital gap in our understanding of the abduction and enslavement of "comfort women" by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war, and will be important reading for students and scholars of war crimes, Asian Studies, and Women's Studies. It will also appeal to legal experts, human rights activists, scholars of oral history, and general readers interested in the Second World War.