At an exhibition of modern Chinese traditional painting in Beijing, artist Wang Yingchun explores the issue of the so-called "Comfort Women".

The Comfort Women series portrays four Chinese women who look desperate, painful and humiliated.

"Comfort Women" was a term used by imperial Japan to refer to young females who were forced to offer sexual services to the Japanese troops during the Sino-Japanese and Second World War, between 1932 and 1945.

The painter says she hopes to record history by painting these miserable Chinese women, many of whom have now passed away.

This is the first time that Chinese paintings of Comfort Women have been displayed in public.

(CRI.com March 28, 2005)