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Remains of Life : A Novel / Wu Wu He.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wu He, Wu, author.
- Series:
- Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
- Standardized Title:
- Yu sheng. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taiwan--History--Musha Incident, 1930.
- Taiwan.
- Taiwan--History--1895-1945--Fiction.
- Japan--Colonies--Taiwan--Fiction.
- Japan.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 333 pages) ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery, airplanes, and internationally banned poisonous gas, bringing the tribe to the brink of genocide.Nearly seventy years later, Chen Guocheng, a writer known as Wu He, or "Dancing Crane," investigated the Musha Incident to search for any survivors and their descendants. Remains of Life, a milestone of Chinese experimental literature, is a fictionalized account of the writer's experiences among the people who live their lives in the aftermath of this history. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, it contains no paragraph breaks and only a handful of sentences. Shifting among observations about the people the author meets, philosophical musings, and fantastical leaps of imagination, Remains of Life is a powerful literary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters in Taiwan's colonial history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Remains of Life. Teil I
- Remains of Life. Teil II
- Afterword
- Notes
- Notes:
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-16600-1
- OCLC:
- 963439644
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