Chinese Comfort Women

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Among the thousands of girls, women, and boys swept up in Imperial Japan's Comfort Women system were Chinese. Some were part of expropriated brothels, some trafficked by brokers who paid their parent's debts, but most were victims of victory.

This subject will be explored in Washington, DC, October 21-22 through a series of presentations by Dr. Peipei Qiu, Louise Boyd Dale and Alfred Lichtenstein Professor of Chinese and Japanese and Director of Asian Studies Program at Vassar College who is a co-author of Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan’s Sex Slaves.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Untold Stories of Chinese Comfort Women

Noon - 2:00 pm

Luncheon

Presentation by Professor Qiu followed by a discussion on evidence supporting the history of Japan's military Comfort Women with Dennis Halpin, former Senior Asia Staffer (Republican) for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Mindy Kotler, Asia Policy Point, and moderated by Jenny Town, Assistant Director, US-Korea Institute at SAIS.

SAIS, Johns Hopkins
Rome Auditorium

1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Co-sponsored by US-Korea Institute, SAIS, Johns Hopkins and Asia Policy Point

Wednesday, October 22
Military Comfort Women in Imperial Japan's Asia-Pacific War: Voices from China and Beyond

1:00-2:30pm 

Roundtable discussion with George Washington University professors

Sigur Center, Elliott School

George Washington University
Chung-wen Shih Conference Room - Suite 503
1957 E Street, NW

Co-sponsored by GW's Memory & Reconciliation in Asia Pacific program and Asia Policy Point

INTERVIEWS WITH THE AUTHOR

Los Angles Review of Books (October 2, 2014)

Violent Expressions of the Imperialist Conquest

Voice of America (August 13, 2014)

Q&A with Peipei Qiu: Chinese Comfort Women

The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time (June 24, 2014)

Writing China: Peipei Qiu, ‘Chinese Comfort Women’

Vice Canada (April 18, 2014)

Japan Is Still Denying the Sexual Slavery of Chinese'Comfort Women'