Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China - Brossura

Yosano, Akiko

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ISBN 10: 0231123191 ISBN 13: 9780231123198

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).

In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China—and as a study of Yosano herself.

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L'autore:

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is author of The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of Japan, 1862-1945 and, most recently, editor of The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography.

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• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0231123191
• ISBN 13: 9780231123198
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 163