Remains of Life : A Novel /
Wu He, Wu
Remains of Life : A Novel / Wu Wu He. - 1 online resource (352 p.) - Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Remains of Life. Teil I -- Remains of Life. Teil II -- Afterword -- Notes
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231166003 9780231544641
10.7312/wu--16600 doi
Musha Rebellion, 1930--Fiction.
Taiwan aborigines--Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PL2966.U82968 / Y813 2017
895.13/6
Remains of Life : A Novel / Wu Wu He. - 1 online resource (352 p.) - Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Remains of Life. Teil I -- Remains of Life. Teil II -- Afterword -- Notes
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780231166003 9780231544641
10.7312/wu--16600 doi
Musha Rebellion, 1930--Fiction.
Taiwan aborigines--Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PL2966.U82968 / Y813 2017
895.13/6