LEADER 03877oam 2200805I 450 001 9910459881003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-88389-4 010 $a1-136-88390-8 010 $a1-283-04346-7 010 $a9786613043467 010 $a0-203-83933-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203839331 035 $a(CKB)2670000000068876 035 $a(EBL)614961 035 $a(OCoLC)701703843 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000466603 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12158979 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000466603 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10458385 035 $a(PQKB)11035935 035 $a(OCoLC)706817458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC614961 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL614961 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10446774 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL304346 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000068876 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAbandoned Japanese in postwar Manchuria $ethe lives of war orphans and wives in two countries /$fYeeshan Chan 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (204 p.) 225 0 $aJapan anthropology workshop series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-83779-0 311 $a0-415-59181-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $a7 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 330 $aThis 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"".