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The Persistent Trade in Humans Across Global Asias: Commerce, Labor, Kinship, and War

Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, Tina Chen
pp. vi-xv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984881
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“Pleasure Women” Meet “Women in Ugly Trade”: Access, Stigmas, and Relation-Making in a Digital Open Educational Resource for Global Asias

Ayaka Yoshimizu, Saeko Suzuki
pp. 2-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984882
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Translating Memory, Contesting Empire: Kim Tae Soo’s Sub-Imperial Poetry on South Korea’s Violence in the Vietnam War

Ka-eul Yoo
pp. 22-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984883
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Contingent Captivity: Resettling Japanese Men, Women, and Children 1941–1945

Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland, Sarah Kovner, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Anoma Pieris, Rowena Ward
pp. 45-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984884
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Moving Spectacles: Madwomen and Human Trafficking in Noh’s Peripheries

Hana Lethen
pp. 76-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984885
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Legacies of Asian Indenture, Expressions of Caribbean Nationalism

Xu Peng
pp. 102-124
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984886
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Textual Traces of Transwar “Comfort Women”: A Feminist Critique of Lee Man-hee’s Seven Female POWs

Juwon Kim
pp. 125-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984887
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Returning Home: Captured Women and Human Markets in Early Qing China, 1642–1656

Chenxi Luo
pp. 151-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984888
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Singmo Sallim and Rethinking Kinship in Twentieth-Century Korea

Da In Choi
pp. 176-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2026.a984889
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