SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Jing-Jing Lee

»Jing-Jing Lee (born 1985) is a Singaporean author who writes in the English language; her best-known work is the novel How We Disappeared (2019).« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

How We Disappeared

I n f o r m a t i o n

»How We Disappeared: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction novel by Singaporean author Jing-Jing Lee, written in English.
Lee developed the book from a short story she wrote, "Cardboard Lady," that appeared in her first collection, If I Could Tell You (2013). She named the main character Chiow Tee after her own mother; the name means "care for a brother" (zhàodì). She wanted to focus attention on the "comfort women" taken to work as slaves in Japanese military brothels, unlike other fiction about the occupation of Singapore which focused on resistance violence and male prisoners of war.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century, 21^st Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Japanese History, Singaporean History

III. Topical Index: Types: Forced Prostitution: "Comfort Women" System; Wartime Sexual Violence: Asia-Pacific War

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Biswas, Ashmita. »'I'll tell that human tale': Documenting the Wartime Sexual Violence in Jing-Jing Lee's How We Disappeared (2019).« Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 15(3) (2023).

[Info] Devi, N.K. Sandhya. »Unweaving the accustomed silence: A study of comfort women using How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee (2020).« Journal of Gender-Based Violence (April 11, 2025).

II. Speaker Index