1st Edition
Writing Manchuria: The Lives and Literature of Zhu Ti and Li Zhengzhong
Part One: Lives and Literature
Historical Setting
The Li Family
The Zhang Family
Two Lives Entwined
Civil War
The "Mao Years"
Life in "The Opening Up"
Conclusions
Part Two: A Gender Questioner: Zhu Ti’s Fiction
What I Wrote and Why: Preface to Cherry
A Pensive Life: Dreams and Youth
Dance Hall Daze: The Joy of Life
The Lure of Love: Shooting Star in a Distant Sky
A Teacher’s Dilemma: Me and My Children
Broken Lives: Melancholy on the Mighty Black Dragon River
From Home to Hell and…?: Cross the Bo Sea
The Human Costs of Sex Work: Little Yinzi and her Family
Rationalizing Rations: Little Scene of the Neighbors
Part Three: An Angry Youth: Li Zhengzhong’s Fiction
What I Wrote and How: Literature and My Life
Caught in Generational Change: Bamboo Shoot
A Quest for Love, A Quest for Revenge: Rude Reality
Urban Decadence, Rural Decline: Nostalgia
An Illicit Affair: Temptation
　
Biography
Norman Smith is a professor of History at the University of Guelph. His research focuses on the modern history of China’s Northeast/Manchuria. His books include two monographs, Resisting Manchukuo (2007) and Intoxicating Manchuria (2012), and nine edited volumes. His research has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Russian.
