Author Geling Yan says she was inspired to write her novel after reading an account by Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary who ran a college in Nanjing where the Ginling Girls college became a haven for students and other women in the city, including some prostitutes. When Japanese soldiers arrived demanding "comfort women" - a euphemism for sex slaves - Ms Vautrin faced the dilemma of letting the so-called "good" women go or giving them the prostitutes. The prostitutes did step forward and were taken away by the soldiers and never heard from again.

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