Böcker av Peipei Qiu

Few outside Japan are familiar with haiku's precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role of Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a literary art. This book examines the haikai poets' adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the 17th century and the transformation of haikai into high poetry.

This is the first English-language book to record the experiences and testimonies of Chinese women abducted and detained as sex slaves in Japanese military "comfort stations" during Japan's 1931-45 invasion of China.