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On 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.
On 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.
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