Abandoned Japanese in postwar Manchuria : the lives of war orphans and wives in two countries / / Yeeshan Chan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459881003321
• Autore: Chan Yeeshan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-88389-4; 1-136-88390-8; 1-283-04346-7; 9786613043467; 0-203-83933-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Collana: Japan anthropology workshop series
• Disciplina: 951.04/2; 951.042
• Soggetti: Abandoned children - China - Manchuria; Abandoned wives - China - Manchuria; Japanese - China - Manchuria; Orphans - China - Manchuria; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 - China - Manchuria; Electronic books.; China Ethnic relations; Manchuria (China) History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Japanese word list; Chinese word list; Individual informant list; Family informant list; Prologue: Who are they?; 1 Approaches to the study of zanryu-hojin; Part I Structures: Zanryu-hojin acting passively in response to social changes; 2 Zanryu-hojin within the flow of historical change; 3 Personhoods formed in rural Northeast China; 4 Repatriation since 1972; Part II Families: Relationships within zanryu-hojin families over a transnational space; 5 Three family accounts; 6 Family in transition; 7 Generational tensions and personhoods developed in JapanPart III Negotiation: Strategies for betterment; 8 Qiaoxiang practices and profiting from kinship; 9 Volunteerism and activism; 10 Conclusion: To what extent have they transformed?; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many zanryu-hojin survived in Chinese peasant families, often as wives or adopted children; the Chinese government estimated that there were around 13,000 survivors in 1959, at the time when over 30,000 ""missing"" people were deleted from Japanese family registers as"" war dead"". <P