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In 1943, 15-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. Now with a new introduction and foreword that assess the ongoing controversy over comfort women, her powerful memoir will be essential reading for all those concerned with violence against women.

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In 1943, 15-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. Now with a new introduction and foreword that assess the ongoing controversy over comfort women, her powerful memoir will be essential reading for all those concerned with violence against women.

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Suffering and Smiling presents a glimpse inside everyday North Korea. Educator and hunger activist, Byung-Ho Chung, illustrates his interactions with the citizenry both inside the border and as refugees in South Korea.

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This compelling book, now in a thoroughly revised and expanded anniversary edition, provides a vivid first-hand account of the student demonstrations and violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation throug...

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This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

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A biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. The journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle.

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An in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of Mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world's most ambitious and intrusive family planning program. China's internal plurality, the author argues, must be taken seriously if the West is to open a fruitful cross-cultural dialogue.

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Recounts the tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Putting a human face on international operations, this book is suitable for those interested in Southeast Asia, and the role of international peacekeeping.

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Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their countrys era of booming economic growth.