Chunja's Nanjing(Korean Diaspora Literature)

How would you feel if you found out that your grandmother is a surviving "comfort woman"? When Jonghyeok, a Korean-Chinese student studying in Japan, falls in love with a Japanese girl named Haruko, he decides to introduce her to his grandmother, Chunja. Yet, upon his arrival at the small village in Yanbian, China, he finds his grandmother surrounded by reporters. He learns that she used to be a "comfort woman" who had been forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. Through Chunja's retelling of her past experiences, Chunja's Nanjing delineates violent historical injustices perpetrated by Japan against Koreans and Chinese in the border region of Gando (Jiandao) and in Nanjing.
Yet, rather than simply dwelling on the tragic past, the book brings the issue of "comfort women" to the present through Jonghyeok and Haruko-the grandson of a Korean comfort woman and the granddaughter of a Japanese soldier who served in China during the war. It is through these two young people that the author offers a glimpse of hope for reflection and reconciliation as they come to understand each other's pain and search for a way to move forward.
Chunja's Nanjing is an artistic journey that takes the readers through a powerful testimony about the appalling treatment of Korean "comfort women" during the war and the possibility of a new peace and resolution in Northeast Asia.

Part I
Botchan Karakuri Clock
A Testimony in Spring
A Tragedy in Deer Valley
Flower Grave
A Hymn on a Moonlit Night

Part II
Into the Tunnel
Factory Girl Recruitment
Khaki-Colored Terror
A Party in Hell
The Fiery Lake of Burning Sulfur
A Pipe That Couldn't Be Played
Blood Rain

Part III
Haruko's Nanjing
Cats Cry for Spring
Monochrome Memories
A Sturdy Pipe
Our Time
Endnotes

Kim Hyeok Born in Longjing in China's Jilin Province in 1965, Kim Hyeok made his literary debut in 1985 with the short stories "Descendants of Pygmy" and "Noah's Ark." A former reporter for major newspapers such as The Yanbian Daily, he has published an array of works including the novels Pox Pustules Bloom in the Shade, Women on Juzi Street, Poet, Empress Wanrong, Chunja's Nanjing, and Silent Age; the short story collections To Kill a Genius and The Bridge of the Other Shore; a compilation of serialized columns titled The Yun Dong-ju Code; biographies such as Standing on the Silk Road: A Biography of Han Nak-yeon, and Salt Flowers: A Biography of Kang Kyeong-ae; and the full-length reportages Tall Pine Tree in Yisongting and Blue Water of the Hailan River and Reading Chinese-Koreans Through Films.
A member of the China Writers Association, Kim founded the Yun Dong-ju Research Society of Longjing after returning to his hometown and is now president of the organization. He is also working on the 12-part epic novel Garam, which is set in Northeast Asia over a period of 100 years.