{"product_id":"mei-niang-s-long-lost-first-writings","title":"Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1944, the novel \u003cem\u003eXie (Crabs)\u003c\/em\u003e by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire’s highest literary award, Novel of the Year. Then, at the peak of her popularity, Mei Niang published in Japanese-owned, Chinese-language journals and newspapers in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932-1945), Japan, and north China. Contemporaries lauded her writings, especially for introducing liberalism to Manchuria’s literary world. In Maoist China, however, Mei Niang was condemned as a traitor and a Rightist with her life and career torn to shreds until her formal vindication in the late 1970s. In 1997, Mei Niang was named one of \"Modern China's 100 Writers.\" The collection that is translated in this volume, \u003ci\u003eXiaojie ji (\u003c\/i\u003eYoung lady’s collection), was published in 1936, when she was 19 years old. Long thought forever lost in the violence of China’s civil war and Maoist strife, the collection was only re-discovered in 2019. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book-length, English-language translation of the work of this high-profile, prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China. \u003ci\u003eMei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to those interested in Chinese literature, the Japanese Empire, historic fiction, history, women’s\/gender history, and students in undergraduate and graduate level courses. To date, English-language volumes of translated Chinese literature have rarely focused on Manchukuo’s Chinese writers or centered on those who left the puppet state by1935. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume fills an important historical lacuna – a teenaged Chinese woman’s views of life and literature in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236882469208,"sku":"9781032459844","price":179.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032459844.jpg?v=1778569266","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mei-niang-s-long-lost-first-writings","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}