Beschreibung:
Yeeshan Chan obtained her PhD from the University of Hong Kong and currently works as a freelance journalist. She has published investigative journalism under a different penname, Yeeshan Yang.
This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan¿s puppet state in Manchuria ended. It examines their eventual repatriation, alongside issues of war memory and war guilt, and the worldviews of the zanryu-hojin, alongsideJapanese society and its anti-war social movements.
1. Approaches to the Study of Zanry¿-h¿jin Part I: Structures 2. Historical Origins 3. Personhoods Formed in Rural China 4. Repatriation Since 1972 Part II: Families 5. Three Family Accounts 6. Family in Transition 7. Generational Tension & Personhood Developed in Japan Part III: Negotiation 8. Qiaoxiang Practices & Profiting from Kinship 9. Volunteerism & Activism 10. Conclusion: To What Extent They Have Transformed?