Remains of Life: A Novel (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan) by Wu He, Wu; Berry, Michael [Translator]

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Paperback / softback. New. 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.… Read More

Columbia Univ Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. 352 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.

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Columbia Univ Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. 352 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.