Remains of Life : : A Novel / / Wu Wu He.
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 he...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Remains of Life. Teil I -- Remains of Life. Teil II -- Afterword -- Notes |
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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231544641 9783110543308 9783110540550 9783110625264 9783110548198 |
DOI: | 10.7312/wu--16600 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Wu Wu He. |