Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy - The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army PDF
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MANCHU PRINCESS, JAPANESE SPY ASIA PERSPECTIVES ____________________________ Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Kawashima Yoshiko, around 1933 Courtesy Hokari Kashio Phyllis Birnbaum MANCHU PRINCESS, JAPANESE SPY The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army Columbia University Press New York ASIA PERSPECTIVES: HISTORY, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE A Series of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University CAROL GLUCK, EDITOR Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II, by Yoshimi Yoshiaki, trans. Suzanne O’Brien The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society, by Pierre François Souyri, trans. 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ON HER OWN 12. POISONOUS DEVIL’S BREW 13. ADVANCE INTO MANCHURIA 14. AN EMPEROR IN FLUX 15. THE RELUCTANT EMPRESS 16. POWERFUL CONNECTIONS 17. WOMAN OF INFLUENCE 18. A GROWING AWARENESS 19. COMMANDER JIN 20. STARTING OVER IN MANCHUKUO 21. IN THE BRIGHT LIGHT 22. WILD CHILD 23. A DAUGHTER LOOKS BACK 24. CHINA NIGHTS 25. EMERGENCY HELP 26. AN OLD LOVE 27. ADRIFT IN FUKUOKA 28. HOPEFUL TO THE END 29. NARROW ESCAPES 30. POSTWAR JUSTICE 31. GO WITH A SMILE Notes Acknowledgments Index MAIN CHARACTERS Chizuko: Yoshiko’s assistant Doihara Kenji: notorious agent provocateur of the Kwantung Army, whose many dark acts furthered Japanese advances in China; said to be one of Yoshiko’s financial backers Fuku: Yoshiko’s adoptive mother; wife of Kawashima Naniwa Fukunaga Kosei: only surviving daughter of Hiro and Pujie Ganjurjab: son of Mongol military leader Babujab; married Yoshiko in 1927 Harada Tomohiko: Naniwa’s relative, who knew Yoshiko in her youth Hiro: see Saga Hiro Itō Hanni: speculator, Yoshiko’s lover Iwata Ainosuke: ultranationalist activist and Yoshiko’s onetime suitor Jin Bihui: another name for Kawashima Yoshiko Jin Moyu: Yoshiko’s younger sister Kamisaka Fuyuko: author of 1984 biography of Yoshiko Kawashima Naniwa: Yoshiko’s adoptive father Kawashima Renko: Yoshiko’s niece; adopted by Kawashima Naniwa Kawashima Shōko: Yoshiko’s grand-niece, Renko’s daughter Kawashima Yoshiko: also known as Aisin Gioro Xianyu, Eastern Jewel, Radiant Jade, Jin Bihui Kosei: see Fukunaga Kosei Mariko: Yoshiko’s fictional counterpart in Muramatsu Shōfū’s novel The Beauty in Men’s Clothing Matsuoka Yōsuke: foreign minister of Japan 1940–1941 Moriyama Eiji: ultranationalist and Yoshiko’s onetime suitor Muramatsu Shōfū: author of best-selling novel about Yoshiko, The Beauty in Men’s Clothing Muramatsu Tomomi: Muramatsu Shōfū’s grandson; also wrote about Yoshiko Naniwa: see Kawashima Naniwa Ogata Hachirō: Yoshiko’s assistant in the latter part of her life Prince Su: Yoshiko’s father; also known as Shanqi Pujie: younger brother of “Last Emperor” Puyi; husband of Saga Hiro Puyi: last emperor of the Qing dynasty Renko: see Kawashima Renko Saga Hiro: aristocratic Japanese wife of Pujie Sasakawa Ryōichi: controversial entrepreneur and Yoshiko’s benefactor Shōfū: see Muramatsu Shōfū Shōko: see Kawashima Shōko Sonomoto Kotone: became close friend of Yoshiko’s in 1939, in Fukuoka Su Bingwen: warlord who staged a rebellion against the occupying Japanese Tada Hayao: officer in Kwantung Army, Yoshiko’s lover Tanaka Ryūkichi: officer in Kwantung Army, Yoshiko’s lover Terao Saho: author of 2008 biography of Yoshiko Tomomi: see Muramatsu Tomomi Tōyama Mitsuru: prominent ultranationalist leader of Gen’yōsha, a group dedicated to Japan’s expansion Wanrong: Puyi’s wife Xianli: Yoshiko’s older brother Yamaga Tōru: Yoshiko’s “first love”; later worked for Japan’s Special Service Agency Yamaguchi Yoshiko: famed singer-actress, known in China as Li Xianglan and in Japan as Ri Kōran Zhang Zuolin: also known as Chang Tso-lin; powerful warlord assassinated by the Japanese in 1928 CHRONOLOGY 1865 Birth of Kawashima Naniwa, Yoshiko’s adoptive father 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War 1907 Approximate date of Yoshiko’s birth 1911 Revolution in China brings down the Qing dynasty 1912 Republic of China established, Qing emperor Puyi abdicates Prince Su and family flee from Beijing to Lushun 1915 Approximate date of Yoshiko’s arrival in Japan as Naniwa’s adopted daughter 1922 Death of both Yoshiko’s father, Prince Su, and her mother 1925 Puyi flees from Beijing to Japanese concession in Tianjin 1927
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