| Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China Contributor(s): Yosano, Akiko (Author), Fogel, Joshua (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0231123183 ISBN-13: 9780231123181 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Asia - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001028015 |
| Lexile Measure: 1320 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.08" W x 9.3" (0.80 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Fogel, Joshua: - Joshua A. Fogel (PhD Columbia) is Canada Research Chair in the History Department at York University. Among many other works, he is the author of Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time and the translator of Inoue Yasushi's The Blue Wolf: A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan. |