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13 - The Debate over ‘Jeep Girls’ in Postwar China

from Part IV - The New Imperialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Zach Fredman
Affiliation:
Duke Kunshan University
Judd Kinzley
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
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This chapter examines the Chinese controversy over “Jeep girls,” referring to women who socialized, sometimes intimately, with American soldiers during and after World War II. While conservatives maligned “Jeep girls” out of racial and sexual anxieties, liberals and self-identified Jeep girls invoked the language of modernity and patriotism. However, in the wake of the Peking Rape incident in 1946, the once diverse debate quickly ended as nationwide protests raged against American imperialism. Delving into various archives and periodicals from both countries, this research uncovers the complexities of Chinese women’s experiences and their stories, which have been muffled or filtered through patriarchal agendas.

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Uneasy Allies
Sino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949
, pp. 235 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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