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- Uneasy Allies
- Uneasy Allies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I An Informal Alliance
- Part II Entanglements of American Empire
- Part III American Power and the New World Order
- Part IV The New Imperialism
- 10 Haydon Boatner and Sino-American Military Cooperation
- 11 Dealing with the Dead in the China-Burma-India Theater
- 12 Qingdao and the Politics of Occupation in Postwar China
- 13 The Debate over ‘Jeep Girls’ in Postwar China
- 14 Smuggling, Military Jurisdiction, and the Remaking of US Empire in Postwar China
- 15 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - The Debate over ‘Jeep Girls’ in Postwar China
from Part IV - The New Imperialism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2024
- Uneasy Allies
- Uneasy Allies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 1 Introduction
- Part I An Informal Alliance
- Part II Entanglements of American Empire
- Part III American Power and the New World Order
- Part IV The New Imperialism
- 10 Haydon Boatner and Sino-American Military Cooperation
- 11 Dealing with the Dead in the China-Burma-India Theater
- 12 Qingdao and the Politics of Occupation in Postwar China
- 13 The Debate over ‘Jeep Girls’ in Postwar China
- 14 Smuggling, Military Jurisdiction, and the Remaking of US Empire in Postwar China
- 15 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 AlliesSino-American Relations at the Grassroots, 1937–1949, pp. 235 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024