{"product_id":"9780231166003-remains-of-life-a-novel","title":"Remains of Life","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Novel\u003cbr\u003eIn 1930, the Japanese colonial regime brought a Taiwanese tribe to the brink of genocide. Wu He investigates the atrocity in this milestone of Chinese experimental literature. Shifting among observation, philosophical musings, and fantastical leaps of imagination, \u003ci\u003eRemains of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful literary reckoning with Taiwan's colonial history.\u003cbr\u003eOn October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurred unlike anything Japan had experienced in its colonial history. Before noon, the Atayal tribe had slain one hundred and thirty-four Japanese in a headhunting ritual. The Japanese responded with a militia of three thousand, heavy artillery, airplanes, and internationally banned poisonous gas, bringing the tribe to the brink of genocide.  Nearly seventy years later, Chen Guocheng, a writer known as Wu He, or \"Dancing Crane,\" investigated the Musha Incident to search for any survivors and their descendants. Remains of Life, a milestone of Chinese experimental literature, is a fictionalized account of the writer's experiences among the people who live their lives in the aftermath of this history. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style, it contains no paragraph breaks and only a handful of sentences. Shifting among observations about the people the author meets, philosophical musings, and fantastical leaps of imagination, Remains of Life is a powerful literary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters in Taiwan's colonial history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567367217526,"sku":"9780231166003","price":101.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31901783.jpg?v=1735318449","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780231166003-remains-of-life-a-novel","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}