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Women in Motion
1media/Nagasakimaru.NYK.Shanghaiwharf.jpg2018-04-23T13:40:19-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8215image_header1082018-11-08T10:42:57-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277The Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan provide information, in varying degrees of detail, on roughly 125 "abducted" women; many others remain undocumented. This path follows the flow of documents about the life and movements of one woman, Ogura Nobu and, to a lesser extent, her husband Chen Zhaopin. It also contains links that elucidate other women's experiences, and offers some reflections on the larger issues that these transgressive mobilities reveal. In the "Temporality 2" part of the path, I offer examples of transgressive mobility in the other direction (toward Japan) since the 1990s, to situate those mobile stories within the overlapping but distinct spatiality of post-Cold War Sino-Japanese relations.
(Note that while the title of this path is "Women in motion," children were also in motion. Though I do not focus on this topic here, I discuss it in detail elsewhere.)
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Contents of this path:
12018-04-23T13:40:19-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8"Chen Wusong" arrives in Shanghai26Consular report on Ogura Nobu's arrival in and repatriation from Shanghai, 1929-09-16.plain2018-11-08T10:21:19-05:0031.2463, 121.49736David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:46-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Ogura Nobu's Return Trip: Moji13Report of Fukuoka Governor on Ogura Nobu's passage through Moji, 1929-09-17.plain2018-11-08T10:49:23-05:0033.90306, 130.92685David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:36-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Ogura Nobu's Return Trip: Kobe17Report of Hyogo Governor on Ogura Nobu's arrival in Kobe, 1929-09-17.plain2018-11-08T10:54:26-05:0034.68601, 135.2143235.44469, 139.64217David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:22-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Report from Chiba16Report of Chiba Governor on Ogura Nobu's background, 1929-09-26.plain2018-11-08T10:55:04-05:0035.51737, 140.41853David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:34-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8"Photograph of the Chinese Abductor of a [Japanese] Woman"11Report of Nagasaki Governor on Ogura Nobu's husband Chen Zhaopin, 1929-10-16.plain2018-11-08T10:57:27-05:0032.74837, 129.86767David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:34-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Ogura Nobu in Fuqing: the 1930 Consular Police Report20Consular police report on Ogura Nobu's presence in Nanshi Village, Fuqing County, Fujian Province, 1930-01.plain2018-11-08T10:59:09-05:0025.47612, 119.5644135.72587, 139.80492David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:35-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Ogura Nobu Leaves Fuqing10Consular police report of Ogura Nobu's departure from Fuqing, 1934-06.plain2018-11-08T11:00:25-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-07-15T20:37:01-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277Embodied Mobilities92How to think about the materiality of movement? The Nihon Yūsen Kaisha's Shanghai ferry as example.plain2018-11-08T11:04:27-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-07-15T23:36:53-04:00David Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277Marginal Lives, Representative Patterns4Situating the women moving to Fuqing in relation to other forms of women's mobility and marginality.plain2018-11-08T11:06:23-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:19-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Complex Lives, Contingent Tactics34Women's responses to efforts to repatriate them from Fuqing.plain2018-11-08T11:09:22-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:44-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Wartime Departures, 1931-4510Departure of Fuqing peddlers and their Japanese wives/children to Fuqing during the Fifteen Year War, 1931-1945.plain2018-11-08T11:12:49-05:0041.80569, 123.4314744.14411, 125.35348David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:47-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Postwar Movements4Return of Japanese women (and adopted children) from Fuqing after 1945, and limits on their ability to return.plain2018-11-08T11:15:32-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:19-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Returns in the Late 1990s10Women (and men adopted as children) who returned from Fuqing to Japan in the late 1990s.plain2018-11-08T11:17:01-05:0025.72114, 119.38433David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:20-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8A Controversial Repatriation: Osaka 201010The case of an extended family of 56 "returnees" from Fuqing and their application for public assistance in Osaka, 2010.plain2018-11-08T11:19:32-05:0034.67623, 135.48605David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
12018-04-23T13:40:48-04:00CHASS Web Resources398fc684681798c72f46b5d25a298734565e6eb8Who are They? Complex Lives, Contingent Tactics, Part 24How to think about the situation of people moving from Fuqing to Japan in recent years.plain2018-11-08T11:21:58-05:00David R. AmbarasDavid Ambaras1337d6b66b25164b57abc529e56445d238145277
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