Fragrant Orchid - The Story of My Early Life

Klappentext The acclaimed actress and singer, Yamaguchi Yoshiko (aka Li Xianglan) emerged from Japan-occupied Manchuria to become a transnational star during the Second Sino-Japanese war. Her complex and intriguing life story as a convenient pawn, willing instrument, and tormented victim of Japan's imperialist ideology is told in her bestselling autobiography, translated here in full for the first time in English.

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• Authors: Sakuya Fujiwara, Fujiwara Sakuya, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yoshiko/ Fujiwara Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Yoshika
• Assisted by: Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu (Editor), Chia-Ning Chang (Translation)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780824867843
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-6784-3
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Critical Interventions; Critical Interventions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies