The Comfort Women
They didn’t stand a chance They were to become the most horrible years of her life: as a young girl during World War II, the Chinese woman Meian Ling is kidnapped and taken to a »comfort women station« by the Japanese. Only years later, she manages to escape from this coercive brothel. But she cannot expect any help back at home – quite the opposite: she is expelled and despised. Eventually, Meian Ling finds the courage to start a new life and go to court. But hardly anyone cares to know the truth. Very emphatically and with great narrative power, the author portrays the fate of many women who have been violently cheated out of their lives. Ruth Hallo, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1957, moved to Nuremberg, Germany, in 1980, where she worked for the Israelite religious community. In 1994, she began studying sinology, theatre arts and media science, and after study visits in China and Taiwan, she finished with a PhD. She lives in Nuremberg and works as a writer and scientist.
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