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Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings: Young Lady’s Collection book cover

1st Edition

Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

By Norman Smith Copyright 2023
140 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In 1944, the novel Xie (Crabs) 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... Read more

 

1. Fate: Mei Niang and I

2. The Life and Career of Mei Niang

3. Introduction to Xiaojie ji (Young lady’s collection)

4. Finding Young Lady’s Collection

Translations:

5. Mother Tao

6. Chance Encounter

7. The Neighbor

8. Lingling

9. Autumn

10. Twilight

11. Libra Scales

12. Life’s Passing

13. Perplexion

14. Reaction of the Sea

15. River Wind

16. Raindrop

17. Spring Night

18. Flowers Play Shadows

19. Fallen Flowers

20. Vase Flowers

21. First Meeting

22. Letter

23. Mother

24. My Friends 

Biography

Norman Smith is a professor of History at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Resisting Manchukuo and Intoxicating Manchuria. Edited volumes include Writing Manchuria; Translating the Occupation; Manchukuo Perspectives; Tian Lin zuopin ji qi yanjiu (Tian Lin’s Writings and Research on Them); Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria, select volumes of Wei Man wenxue ciliao zhengli yu yanjiu congshu, and Beyond Suffering. His work has been published in Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. He is the cofounder and coeditor of the website, Manchuria, Literature and Culture: 1900-.

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