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  • Historical Studies on Comfort Women in Shanghai

    A Field Study Approach

    by Zhiliang Su, Lifei Chen, Fei Yao, Xie'an Huang ...
    This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment, and operations of comfort stations, as well as tell the sufferings of comfort women, many of whom were coerced into service. It does so by providing historical evidence gathered over 25 years of field studies from 172 comfort stations which were ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Chinese Comfort Women

    Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves

    by Peipei Qiu ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    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 ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • The Great Famine in China, 1958-1962: A Documentary History

    by Xun Zhou ...
    Beginning soon after the implementation of the policies of the Great Leap Forward of 1958-1961, when the drive to collectivize and industrialize undermined the livelihoods of the vast majority of peasant workers, China's Great Famine was the worst famine in human history. In addition to claiming more than 45 million lives, it also led to the destruction of agriculture, industry, trade, and every ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Comfort Women

    Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan

    by C. Sarah Soh ...
    In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women—mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army—endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually been labeled victims of a war crime, a simplistic view that makes it easy to pin blame on the policies of imperial Japan and therefore easier to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Decision in Beijing

    Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

    by Yang Su ...
    Three decades after 1989, historical materials are now available for understanding the Tiananmen protests in a new light. In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, Yang Su addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. He challenges conventional views that see the military intervention as a necessary measure ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Coalitions of the Weak

    by Victor C. Shih ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    For the first time since Mao, a Chinese leader may serve a life-time tenure. Xi Jinping may well replicate Mao's successful strategy to maintain power. If so, what are the institutional and policy implications for China? Victor C. Shih investigates how leaders of one-party autocracies seek to dominate the elite and achieve true dictatorship, governing without fear of internal challenge or ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Battle For China's Past

    Mao and the Cultural Revolution

    by Mobo Gao ...
    --Shows that the Mao era was benficial for most Chinese citizens--"A powerful mixture of political passion and original research, a brave polemic against the fashionable view on China. ... Aims a knockout blow at Jung Chang’s recent book on Mao, which Bush and the conservatives rave-reviewed." Gregor Benton, Professor of Chinese History, University of Cardiff"This important book opens a much ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women and China's Revolutions

    by Gail Hershatter ...
    If we place women at the center of our account of China’s last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender as its analytic lens. Leading scholar Gail Hershatter asks how these events affected women in ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • The Conscience of the Party

    Hu Yaobang, China’s Communist Reformer

    by Robert L. Suettinger ...
    The definitive story of a top Chinese politician’s ill-fated quest to reform the Communist Party.When Hu Yaobang died in April 1989, throngs of mourners converged on the Martyrs’ Monument in Tiananmen Square to pay their respects. Following Hu’s 1987 ouster by party elders, Chinese propaganda officials had sought to tarnish his reputation and dim his memory, yet his death galvanized the nascent ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • China Duel

    A True Story of the Failed Coup in 2012 that Almost Avoided the Tyranny of the Xi Jingping Dictatorship

    by Yang Xiang ...
    China Duel: A True Story of the Failed Coup in 2012 that Almost Avoided the Tyranny of the Xi Jingping DictatorshipBy: Yang XiangChina Duel: A True Story of the Failed Coup in 2012 that Almost Avoided the Tyranny of the Xi Jingping Dictatorship is a political tell-all from a Chinese expat and ex-political prisoner, shedding light on the secrets and conspiracies of the Chinese government.About the ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

  • Heaven Does Not Block All Roads

    A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao

    by Anna Beth Keim ...
    Huang Chin-tao was born in 1926, when Taiwan was still part of the Japanese Empire. By the time he died in 2019, Taiwan was a bustling, high-tech democracy-and Huang had lived through every twist and turn along the way. He served as a Japanese soldier in China during World War II; joined an armed uprising against Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist post-war government; spent twenty-four years imprisoned ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • June Fourth

    The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989

    by Jeremy Brown ...
    Series series New Approaches to Asian History
    The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over ... Read more

    $31.19 USD