Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation (Contemporary Chinese Studies)
By Norman Smith.
Description
Winner of the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book PrizeResisting Manchukuo reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation.In Manchukuo, a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the Japanese cultural agenda while working in close association with colonial institutions.The first book in English on w...
ISBN(s)
0774813369, 9780774813365
