Peipei Qiu - Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japans Sex Slaves

Chinese Comfort Women

Testimonies from Imperial Japans Sex Slaves

Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Qiu, Peipei, 1954

Chinese comfort women : testimonies from imperial Japans sex slaves / Peipei Qiu, with Su Zhiliang and Chen Lifei.
pages cm (Oxford oral history series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-19-937389-5 (pbk.)

1. Comfort women China History. 2. Comfort women China Biography.
3. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Women China. 4. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Atrocities.
5. Japanese China History 20th century. 6. Soldiers China History 20th century.
7. Women Crimes against China History 20th century. 8. Abduction China History
20th century. 9. Prostitution China History 20th century. 10. Sex crimes China
History 20th century. I. Su, Zhiliang. II. Chen, Lifei, 1959-III. Title.

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940.5351086949 dc23 2014002189

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For those who suffered in the war

Figures
(All photographs taken by the collaborating researchers of this book.)

1 Dayi (or Daiichi, in Japanese) Saloon indicated with an circle on a 1937 Japanese map

2 A cave dwelling in Yu County, Shanxi Province, used as a comfort station by the Japanese troops and the place Wan Aihua was imprisoned in 1943

3 Survivor Huang Youliang (on right) showing the site of Tengqiao Comfort Station on Hainan Island, where she was enslaved in 1941 as a comfort woman

4 Yuan Zhulin revisiting the old temple where the Japanese army kept her in 1940 as a comfort woman

5 The buildings of Dayi Saloon on Dong-Baoxing Road in Shanghai today

6 Locations of the comfort stations where the twelve women whose stories are related in this volume were enslaved

7 The rock cave where Li Lianchun hid in 1943 after her escape from Songshan Comfort Station

8 Lei Guiying giving a talk in Shanghai in 2006 to teachers and students from Canada

9 Zhou Fenying, in 2007, speaking to interviewers of her wartime experiences

10 Zhu Qiaomei at the 2001 notarization of her wartime experiences

11 Lu Xiuzhen, in 2000, giving a talk at the International Symposium on Chinese Comfort Women at Shanghai Normal University

12 Yuan Zhulin, in 1998, attending a public hearing in Toronto on the atrocities committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War

13 Tan Yuhua, in 2008, in front of her home

14 Yin Yulin, in 2001, praying in her cave dwelling

15 Wan Aihua, in 2000, telling the students and faculty at Shanghai Normal University how she was tortured by Japanese soldiers during the war

16 Huang Youliang, in 2000, speaking to interviewers about her experiences in a Japanese military comfort station

17 Chen Yabian, in 2003, in front of her home

18 Lin Yajin, in 2007, attending the opening ceremony of the Chinese Comfort Women Archives in Shanghai

19 Li Lianchun, in 2001, being interviewed in her daughters house

20 Comfort station survivor Zhu Qiaomeis home after the Second World War; her family became destitute as a result of the Japanese invasion

21 Comfort station survivor Zhu Qiaomei was sick at home in 2001

22 Comfort station survivor Mao Yinmei (middle) in front of her house with Su Zhiliang (second from right) and researchers from Germany and Japan

23 Gravestone erected by the Research Center for Chinese Comfort Women commemorating the life of Yang Wubang, a Hainan Island comfort station survivor who died on 31 August 2006, the day after the Tokyo District Court denied the Hainan victims claim for compensation

24 Chen Lifei (second from left), of the Research Centre for Chinese Comfort Women, attending the funeral of comfort station survivor Lu Xiuzhen, who died on 24 November 2005

25 Comfort station survivor Tan Yuhua (sitting second from left) with history teachers from North America after giving a talk in July 2008 about her experience during the Japanese occupation

Tables

1 Comfort stations in Hongkou District, Shanghai, in 1940

2 A sample list of fees charged by comfort stations in China