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

Author/creator Yosano, Akiko Author
Other author Fogel, Joshua 1950- Translator
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press
Description128 p. ill 23.600 x 014.400 cm.
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Summary Annotation <p>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 <i>The Tale of Genji</i> 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, <i>Seito</i> (Blue stocking).</p><p>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.</p>
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LCCN 2001028015
ISBN9780231123181
ISBN0231123183 (Trade Cloth) Active Record
Standard identifier# 9780231123181
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