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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Berry (Translator), Wu Wu HeSeries:Modern Chinese Literature from TaiwanPublish date:2017-04-11Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231166010ISBN-10:023116601XUPC:9780231166010Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCEASJPW4Z

Remains of Life

On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery,...

Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231166010ISBN-10:023116601XUPC:9780231166010Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCEASJPW4Z

Wu He is a native of Tainan, Taiwan, and came to prominence in 1974 with the publication of his award-winning short story, "Peony Autumn." He spent much of the 1980s and 1990s in seclusion before returning to the literary world with a string of powerful and challenging books, including Digging for Bones (1995), The Sea at Seventeen (1997), Wu He Danshui (2001), Ghost and Goblin (2005), and Chaos...

Publisher: Columbia University Press

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