TY - BOOK ID - 77901490 TI - Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia : A feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China AU - Yosano, Akiko AU - Fogel, Joshua A. PY - 2001 SN - 023150666X 9780231506663 0231123183 0231123191 9780231123198 9780231123181 PB - New York Columbia university press DB - UniCat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese. KW - Yosano, Akiko, KW - Hō, Shō, KW - Hō, Akiko, KW - Yosano, Akiko Hō, KW - 与謝野晶子, KW - 與謝野晶子, KW - 興謝野晶子, KW - Travel KW - Manchuria (China) KW - Mongolia KW - Description and travel. KW - J2284.80 KW - J5630 KW - S22/0300 KW - S23/0300 KW - Japan: Genealogy and biography -- biographies -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa, 20th century KW - Japan: Literature -- literary diaries, letters and accounts of travel KW - North-eastern provinces (Manchuria)--Geography, description and travel KW - Mongolia and the Mongols (including Tannu Tuva, Buriats)--Geography, description and travel KW - Yosano, Akiko UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901490 AB - Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking).In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China-and as a study of Yosano herself. ER -