<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This article provides the reader with an outline of academic research on comfort women in China: its development and its main topics, the disciplines involved in the discourse and the timeline of events triggering and intensifying research in this area are discussed. Using a quantitative as well as a qualitative approach, I attempt to position these debates firstly within international discourses and secondly within general PRC historiography. The hypothesis being proposed is that in terms of topic as well as concerning the mode of research and presentation, comfort women-related research has been strongly influenced by an imagined Japanese revisionist interlocutor.</p></abstract>

This article provides the reader with an outline of academic research on comfort women in China: its development and its main topics, the disciplines involved in the discourse and the timeline of events triggering and intensifying research in this area are discussed. Using a quantitative as well as a qualitative approach, I attempt to position these debates firstly within international discourses and secondly within general PRC historiography. The hypothesis being proposed is that in terms of topic as well as concerning the mode of research and presentation, comfort women-related research has been strongly influenced by an imagined Japanese revisionist interlocutor.

The Academic Discussion of the ‘Comfort Women’ in the PRC

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies

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This article provides the reader with an outline of academic research on comfort women in China: its development and its main topics, the disciplines involved...

The Academic Discussion of the ‘Comfort Women’ in the PRC

Data publikacji: 30 lis 2018

Zakres stron: 55 - 83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2011-0009

Słowa kluczowe
China, comfort women, historiography, positivism, postcolonialism

© 2011 Michaela Prouza, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Academic Discussion of the ‘Comfort Women’ in the PRC

Data publikacji: 30 lis 2018

Zakres stron: 55 - 83

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/vjeas-2011-0009

Słowa kluczoweChina, comfort women, historiography, positivism, postcolonialism

© 2011 Michaela Prouza, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
China, comfort women, historiography, positivism, postcolonialism