The matrix of modernity and national identity in Manchukuo literature from 1937 to 1941

"This research, the first endeavor in the English academic world to explore Manchukuo literature in its entirety, puts it within the specific cultural lineages and social-political background to illuminate its underlying intellectual dynamics with a focus on four major literary groups, the Manshū rōmanha, Sakubun writers, Yiwenzhi intellectuals, and the Wenxuan group. Through an in-depth investigation into their theoretical proposals and literary praxes, it turns out that oscillating between modernization and national identification, Manchukuo literature took on the features of multiplicity, ambiguity and self-reflexivity which transcended the dichotomy of romanticism and realism and that of the colonizers and the colonized"--