Traffic in Asian Women

by Laura Hyun Yi Kang

Book Overview

In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of US power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932-1945)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478009667
• ISBN13: 9781478009665
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"