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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825978503321

Autore

Yosano Akiko <1878-1942.>

Titolo

Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia : a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China / / Yosano Akiko ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

0-231-50666-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 pages) : maps

Altri autori (Persone)

FogelJoshua A. <1950->

Disciplina

895.6/84403

B

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese

Manchuria (China) Description and travel

Mongolia Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Yosano Akiko and her China Travelogue of 1928 / Fogel, Joshua A. -- Travels in Mancuria and Mongolia / Akiko, Yosano -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.