{"product_id":"chinese-comfort-women-peipei-qiu-9780199373895","title":"Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves","description":"During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into \"comfort stations\" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local women and the spread of venereal disease among soldiers. In reality, these women were kidnapped and coerced into sexual slavery. Comfort stations institutionalized rape, and these \"comfort women\" were subjected to atrocities that have only recently become the subject of international debate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eChinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves\u003c\/em\u003e features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors. In addition, their stories bring to light several previously hidden aspects of the comfort women system: the ransoms the occupation army forced the victims' families to pay, the various types of improvised comfort stations set up by small military units throughout the battle zones and occupied regions, and the sheer scope of the military sexual slavery-much larger than previously assumed. The personal narratives of these survivors combined with the testimonies of witnesses, investigative reports, and local histories also reveal a correlation between the proliferation of the comfort stations and the progression of Japan's military offensive. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first English-language account of its kind, \u003cem\u003eChinese Comfort Women\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the full extent of the injustices suffered by these women and the conditions that caused them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peipei Qiu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199373892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199373895\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/12\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 677","brand":"Peipei Qiu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048963207423,"sku":"9780199373895","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5782774-d766-47a8-b1b8-e6d82b2e1a72.jpg?v=1684998821","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chinese-comfort-women-peipei-qiu-9780199373895","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}