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Representing Empire: Japanese Colonial Literature in Taiwan and Manchuria by Ying Xiong (Hardback, 2014)

In Representing Empire Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, Representing Empire reveals t only a nuanced picture of Japanese literary terrain but also the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism in the colonies. While the existing literature on Japanese nationalism has largely remained within the confines of national history, by using colonial literature as an example, Ying Xiong demonstrates that transnational forces shaped Japanese nationalism in the twentieth century. With its multidisciplinary and comparative approach, Representing Empire adds to a growing body of literature that challenges traditional interpretations of Japanese nationalism and national literary can. Representing Empire is an outstanding accomplishment, at once making clearer and complicating our understandings of the literary worlds of Manchuria and Taiwan, and the greater imperial empire within which all were transformed...add[s] substantially to the ways in which Japan's empire and twentieth century East Asian history more generally might be interpreted. Norman Smith, University of Guelph, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center Publication (February, 2015)

Place of Publication
Leiden
Series Part/Volume Number
3
Series Title
East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture
Author Biography
Ying Xiong, Ph.D (2011), University of Sydney, is a research associate at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
Date of Publication
20/06/2014
Country of Publication
Netherlands

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