Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

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-...

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Main Author: Yosano Akiko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Columbia University Press [2001]
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed May 30, 2016)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780231506663

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