Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia : a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China / Yosano Akiko ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yosano, Akiko, 1878-1942.

Contributor:

Fogel, Joshua A., 1950-

Standardized Title:

Man-Mō yūki. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yosano, Akiko, 1878-1942--Travel--China--Manchuria.

Yosano, Akiko.

Yosano, Akiko, 1878-1942--Travel--Mongolia.

Manchuria (China)--Description and travel.

Manchuria (China).

Mongolia--Description and travel.

Mongolia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Yosano Akiko and her China Travelogue of 1928 / Fogel, Joshua A.

Travels in Mancuria and Mongolia / Akiko, Yosano

Notes

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231506663

023150666X

OCLC:

828303846