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Foreword / by Karen Thornber -- Introduction : "Manchukuo perspectives," or "collaboration" as a transcendence of literary, national, and chronological boundaries / Annika A. Culver -- part I. Manchukuo's print media and the politics of representation/translation -- Unpacking "new Manchuria" narratives : propaganda, fact, memory, and aesthetics / Liu Xiaoli -- Fairy tales and the creation of the "future nation" of Manchukuo / Chen Shi -- Spiritual resistance : a study of the phenomenon of resistance literature in supplements of Manchukuo's Datong bao (Great unity herald) / Jiang Lei -- Utopianism unrealized : Ōuichi Takao's literary translation in Manchukuo / Ying Xiong -- part II. Chinese writers in Manchukuo and "Manchukuo" writers in Japan -- Linguistic hybridity, transnational connectivity, and the cultural territorialization of colonial literature : the case of Gu Ding / Miya Qiong Xie -- Sickness, death, and survival in the works of Gu Ding and Xiao Hong / Junko Agnew -- Manchukuo melancholy : the writings of Ke Ju and Zhu Ti / Norman Smith -- Zhu Ti and I / Ke Ju (LI Zhengzhong) -- From radical nationalism to anti-modernism : the intellectual dilemma of Wenxuan writers / Liu Chao -- Literature selection in a historical dilemma : shan ding's literary proposition and practice in Manchukuo / Wang Yue -- Acculturation and border-crossing in Manchukuo literature : Mei Niang, Liu Longguang, and Yuan Xi / Chen Yan -- Searching for memories of colonial literature in modern history : centring Mei Niang's border and generational crossings / Zhang Quan -- Luo Tuosheng and Manchukuo literature : the literary endeavours of a Manchukuo student in imperial Japan / Ōkubo Akio -- part III. Russian, Japanese, and Korean writers in Manchukuo -- In the sunken submarine : Russian emigre poetry in Manchukuo / Olga Bakich -- The imagination of heterogeneous space and implicit transformations of identity : Manchukuo's "Japanese" and "Manchurian" detective novelists / Zhan Li -- The literary politics of harmonization and dissonance : heterolingual address in Nogawa Takashi's "The people who go to the Hamlet" / Stephen Poland -- "Manchuria" and the proletarian literature of colonial Korea / Watanabe Naoki -- Modern Korean literature and Manchukuo /Kim Jaeyong -- Postscript / Norman Smith. This groundbreaking volume critically examines how writers in Japanese-occupied northeast China negotiated political and artistic freedom while engaging their craft amidst an increasing atmosphere of violent conflict and foreign control. The allegedly multiethnic utopian new state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) created by supporters of imperial Japan was intended to corral the creative energies of Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Russians, and Mongols. Yet, the twin poles of utopian promise and resistance to a contested state pulled these intellectuals into competing loyalties, selective engagement, or even exile and death--surpassing neat paradigms of collaboration or resistance. In a semicolony wrapped in the utopian vision of racial inclusion, their literary works articulating national ideals and even the norms of everyday life subtly reflected the complexities and contradictions of the era. Scholars from China, Korea, Japan, and North America investigate cultural production under imperial Japan's occupation of Manchukuo. They reveal how literature and literary production more generally can serve as a penetrating lens into forgotten histories and the lives of ordinary people confronted with difficult political exigencies. Highlights of the text include transnational perspectives by leading researchers in the field and a memoir by one of Manchukuo's last living writers
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