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Book on Surviving Comfort Women in China Published

December 12, 2008

Li Jinyu, a former comfort woman in Shanxi Province during the World War II , shows up in Nanjing, Jiangsu, December 11. [cnsphoto]

A memoir containing 400 pictures and the stories of 67 surviving Chinese World War II comfort women was published on December 11 in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province.

Li Xiaofang, the author, said he spent three years visiting over 70 women all over China and South Korea. "Most of them lead a miserable life without a secure source of income," he revealed.

Fifteen old ladies from Qinxian and Wuxiang counties in north China's Shanxi Province made public their real names for the first time in this book.

Li Jinyu, one of the 15 elderly women, recalled that she was imprisoned by the Japanese army at the age of 14 in 1944 and forced to serve as a prostitute for two months. She became sterile due to the tragic experience.

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