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The war period 1937-1949 has long been a neglected episode in the study of modern Chinese literature, and no aspect of it has suffered such complete indifference from scholars as the literature produced in the eastern seaboard cities occupied by the Japanese. For the other two areas into which China was divided during the War of Resistance, the Greater Rear Area under the Nationalist government in Chongqing and the Communist Party's Base Areas in North China, at least we have a number of draft histories written by Chinese scholars, and in recent years a scattering of articles in Western languages. It is a truism that history is unkind to losers, but here something more may be involved, namely revulsion against the quite exceptional brutality of the Japanese occupation and against those who chose to collaborate with it. A study of this particular chapter in modern Chinese literature has been long overdue, however, not just "be- cause it is there" but also for what it may be able to tell us about life under the Japanese occupation. And just as it may shed a different sort of light on the literary groups of the 1930's, so it may also be crucial for our understanding of the complex for

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Author

Edward M. Gunn, Jr

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231047302

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-25