Chinese Comfort Women ─ Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves

Drawing on newly released archival documents as well as recent field research, authors Qiu (Vassar College) and Zhiliang and Lifei (Shanghai Normal University) present the first-person stories of 12 Chinese women who were forced to provide sex to invading Japanese soldiers during WWII. The first part of the book gives an overview of the military 'comfort women' system, the mass abduction of Chinese women, and the different types of comfort women stations in China. Part 2, the heart of the book, presents survivors' voices, based on extensive interviews recorded over a ten-year period. Part 3 charts the international movement to support compensation and redress for former comfort women. The book includes contemporary b&w photos of the women profiled and of sites of the abuse. The book is distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press and in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.