Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and LI Zhengzhon

Writing Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth century's "four famous husband-wife writers" of China's Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921-2020) and Zhu Ti (1923-2012).

List of contents

Part One: Lives and Literature / Part Two: A Gender Questioner: Zhu Ti’s Fiction / Part Three: An Angry Youth: Li Zhengzhong’s Fiction

About the author

Norman Smith is a professor of History at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the modern history of China’s Northeast/Manchuria. His books include two monographs, Resisting Manchukuo (2007) and Intoxicating Manchuria (2012), and nine edited volumes. His research has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.

Summary

Writing Manchuria details the lives and translates a selection of fiction from one of the mid-twentieth century’s "four famous husband-wife writers" of China’s Northeast, who lived in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo: Li Zhengzhong (1921-2020) and Zhu Ti (1923-2012).

Product details

• Authors: Norman Smith, Norman (University of Guelph Smith, Smith Norman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032376301
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3237630-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Japan
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; China, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Chinese, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Asian History, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Northeast China