- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
-
Introduction “Manchukuo Perspectives,” or “Collaboration” as a Transcendence of Literary, National, and Chronological Boundaries -
1 Unpacking “New Manchuria” Narratives -
2 Fairy Tales and the Creation of the “Future Nation” of Manchukuo -
3 Spiritual Resistance -
4 Utopianism Unrealized -
5 Linguistic Hybridity, Transnational Connectivity, and the Cultural Territorialization of Colonial Literature -
6 Sickness, Death, and Survival in the Works of Gu Ding and Xiao Hong -
7 Manchukuo Melancholy -
8 Zhu Ti and I -
9 From Radical Nationalism to Anti-modernism -
10 Literature Selection in a Historical Dilemma -
11 Acculturation and Border-Crossing in Manchukuo Literature -
12 Searching for Memories of Colonial Literature in Modern History -
13 Luo Tuosheng and Manchukuo Literature -
14 In the Sunken Submarine -
15 The Imagination of Heterogeneous Space and Implicit Transformations of Identity -
16 The Literary Politics of Harmonization and Dissonance -
17 “Manchuria” and the Proletarian Literature of Colonial Korea -
18 Modern Korean Literature and Manchukuo - Postscript
- Contributors
- Index
Manchukuo Melancholy
Manchukuo Melancholy
The Writings of Ke Ju and Zhu Ti
- Chapter:
- (p.120) 7 Manchukuo Melancholy
- Source:
- Manchukuo Perspectives
- Author(s):
Norman Smith
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
Li Zhengzhong (pen name Ke Ju) (b. 1921) and Zhang Xingjuan (penname Zhu Ti)(1923-2012) are Chinese writers who established prominent careers in Manchukuo; together, they comprise one couple of the “Northeast’s four famous husband-wife writers.” This chapter outlines their personal lives and important elements of their professional careers before focusing on several of their fictional works: Li’s novel Native Place Yearning, and two of Zhang’s novellas, “Melancholy on the Mighty Black Dragon River” and “Cherry.” These major works feature melancholic themes reflecting their engaged, yet alienated, relationship with contemporary society under imperial Japan's occupation.
Keywords: Manchukuo, Li Zhengzhong, Ke Ju, Zhang Xingjuan, Zhu Ti, melancholy, Japanese occupation, Chinese writers
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
-
Introduction “Manchukuo Perspectives,” or “Collaboration” as a Transcendence of Literary, National, and Chronological Boundaries -
1 Unpacking “New Manchuria” Narratives -
2 Fairy Tales and the Creation of the “Future Nation” of Manchukuo -
3 Spiritual Resistance -
4 Utopianism Unrealized -
5 Linguistic Hybridity, Transnational Connectivity, and the Cultural Territorialization of Colonial Literature -
6 Sickness, Death, and Survival in the Works of Gu Ding and Xiao Hong -
7 Manchukuo Melancholy -
8 Zhu Ti and I -
9 From Radical Nationalism to Anti-modernism -
10 Literature Selection in a Historical Dilemma -
11 Acculturation and Border-Crossing in Manchukuo Literature -
12 Searching for Memories of Colonial Literature in Modern History -
13 Luo Tuosheng and Manchukuo Literature -
14 In the Sunken Submarine -
15 The Imagination of Heterogeneous Space and Implicit Transformations of Identity -
16 The Literary Politics of Harmonization and Dissonance -
17 “Manchuria” and the Proletarian Literature of Colonial Korea -
18 Modern Korean Literature and Manchukuo - Postscript
- Contributors
- Index
