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Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia - by Akiko Yosano (Paperback)

Name: Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia - by Akiko Yosano (Paperback)
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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese.
About the Author: Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
128 Pages
Travel, Essays & Travelogues

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A valuable document for the study of the modern Japanese construction of "China" and "the Chinese," this important travelogue by Yosana Akiko--one of Japan's greatest poets and a prominent spokeswoman during the early years of Japanese feminism--charts her travels in Japanese-controlled Manchuria and Mongolia in 1928. Written during a tense period in Sino-Japanese relations, Yosana's travelogue clearly reveals the limits of her stated progressive leanings in the face of the imperialist project of which she could not help but be a part.

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Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).

In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China--and as a study of Yosano herself.

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"Curious, elegant...[Yosano's account] lingers in the mind, calling everything before it into question." -- John McClain, "Pacific Reader"

"Curious, elegant...[Yosano's account] lingers in the mind, calling everything before it into question." -- John McClain, Pacific Reader

"Curious, elegant...ÝYosano's account¨ lingers in the mind, calling everything before it into question." -- John McClain, "Pacific Reader"

"Curious, elegant...[Yosano's account] lingers in the mind, calling everything before it into question." -- John McClain, "Pacific Reader"

About the Author

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is author of The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of Japan, 1862-1945 and, most recently, editor of The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .38 Inches (D)

Weight: .46 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 128

Genre: Travel

Sub-Genre: Essays & Travelogues

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Akiko Yosano

Language: Japanese

Street Date: September 26, 2001

TCIN: 85255918

UPC: 9780231123198

Item Number (DPCI): 247-67-9558

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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