Tag: women
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Request for Divorce
Introduction by Tadashi Ishikawa, University of Central Florida (Orlando, FL, U.S.A.). Published on Dec 18, 2020. Ms. Liao Yinghua’s divorce case against Mr. Chen Junxiu presents sources of information that revealed the layered development of law in the interwar Japanese empire, the woman question, and gender and sexuality. Both civil and criminal law, as well as their… Read more
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Secret Story of Cross-Border Smuggling
Introduction by Joseph Seeley, University of Virginia. Published on Dec 18, 2020. Smuggling had long thrived along the fluid Sino-Korean border spaces of the Yalu and Tumen Rivers, but a number a factors caused it to explode—both in terms of sheer numbers and pop cultural impact—during the early 1930s. Rural impoverishment in Depression-era northern Korea… Read more
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“Concerning the Management of Women Traveling to China”
Introduction by Amy Stanley (Northwestern University). Published on Dec 9, 2021. This document, Concerning the management of women traveling to China, was issued by the head of the Home Ministry Police Affairs Bureau on February 23, 1938. The same office sent a draft of the document to prefectural governors in Japan and the heads of the Ministry… Read more