Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always
been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now,
his story has never been properly told, let alone critically
investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an
ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits
serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and
on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the
recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and
transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will
undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in
WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark
Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of
Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. In this book,
Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue,
including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The
author argues that Wang’s lyric poetry, as the public performance
of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his
political identity and heavily influenced the public’s posthumous
memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the
USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals,
newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers
the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary,
and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic
impartiality.
General
Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Zhiyi Yang
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-07650-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-472-07650-7 |
Barcode: |
9780472076505 |
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