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The Undrowning Lotus: A WW2 Historical Novel.

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The Undrowning Lotus: A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Sexual Slavery Survivor Based on a true story, Undrowning Lotus centers on Chunhua who grew up during the opium crisis in Shanxi, located in Northern China. After being sold as a child bride, her feet were bounded by her in-laws, a popular practice in China at the time. She worked on the farm day and night while trying to find meaning in her life. As communism rose in China, she became a revolutionary. This allowed her to contribute to her country at a time of civil war in China. During the invasion of China by the Imperial Japanese Army, she was captured and put into sexual slavery known as comfort women station. According to Iris Chang, the author of the Rape of Nanking, these women were called "public toilets" by Japanese soldiers. This is a story of survival through the comfort woman station in Northern China, where our heroine escaped and was recaptured a couple of times before the war ended. This book features interviews from 2014 with Chinese comfort women from Shanxi before they passed away as well as rare photos of a comfort station from Northern China.
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Jenny Chan has created a poignant account of the tragic violence enacted on Chinese comfort women by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Based on interviews with survivors, the story of Chinese women brutalized in wartime is told from the perspective of a young Chinese girl who brings emotional resonance and strength to a too often overlooked historical atrocity."

-Janelle Wong, Professor, Asian American Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park

"Chan's ability to gather and weave the oral histories of women who suffered under the Japanese occupation into such a captivating tale of woe, culture, and hope is exceptional. Her storytelling does justice to our female elders, retelling their experiences in a way that challenges the reader's imagination and inspires an affinity for our lost histories in the Pacific Theater." -- Stacey Anne Salinas, Senior Historian of the Bulosan Center of Filipino Studies, UC Davis