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Remains of Life : A Novel / Wu Wu He.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Chinese Literature from TaiwanPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231166003
  • 9780231544641
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.13/6 23
LOC classification:
  • PL2966.U82968 Y813 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Remains of Life. Teil I -- Remains of Life. Teil II -- Afterword -- Notes
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.
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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.

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