{"product_id":"9780231166010","title":"Remains of Life : A Novel (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48220378136811,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B19-03_SIMS","price":53.1,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780231166010-1.jpg?v=1783481616","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9780231166010","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}