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Mei Niang's Long-Lost First Writings: Young Lady's Collection

Mei Niang's Long-Lost First Writings: Young Lady's Collection

Smith, Norman

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Japan

Literary CriticismChinese HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 1032459867
ISBN13: 9781032459868
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 9 2024
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In 1944, the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire's highest literary award, Novel of the Year. Then, at the peak of her popularity, Mei Niang published in Japanese-owned, Chinese-language journals and newspapers in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932-1945), Japan, and north China. Contemporaries lauded her writings, especially for introducing liberalism to Manchuria's literary world. In Maoist China, however, Mei Niang was condemned as a traitor and a Rightist with her life and career torn to shreds until her formal vindication in the late 1970s. In 1997, Mei Niang was named one of Modern China's 100 Writers. The collection that is translated in this volume, Xiaojie ji (Young lady's collection), was published in 1936, when she was 19 years old. Long thought forever lost in the violence of China's civil war and Maoist strife, the collection was only re-discovered in 2019.

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