Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Karen Thornber
  • Introduction : "Manchukuo perspectives," or "collaboration" as a transcendence of literary, national, and chronological boundaries / Annika A. Culver
  • part I. Manchukuo's print media and the politics of representation/translation
  • Unpacking "new Manchuria" narratives : propaganda, fact, memory, and aesthetics / Liu Xiaoli
  • Fairy tales and the creation of the "future nation" of Manchukuo / Chen Shi
  • Spiritual resistance : a study of the phenomenon of resistance literature in supplements of Manchukuo's Datong bao (Great unity herald) / Jiang Lei
  • Utopianism unrealized : Ōuichi Takao's literary translation in Manchukuo / Ying Xiong
  • part II. Chinese writers in Manchukuo and "Manchukuo" writers in Japan
  • Linguistic hybridity, transnational connectivity, and the cultural territorialization of colonial literature : the case of Gu Ding / Miya Qiong Xie
  • Sickness, death, and survival in the works of Gu Ding and Xiao Hong / Junko Agnew
  • Manchukuo melancholy : the writings of Ke Ju and Zhu Ti / Norman Smith
  • Zhu Ti and I / Ke Ju (LI Zhengzhong)
  • From radical nationalism to anti-modernism : the intellectual dilemma of Wenxuan writers / Liu Chao
  • Literature selection in a historical dilemma : shan ding's literary proposition and practice in Manchukuo / Wang Yue
  • Acculturation and border-crossing in Manchukuo literature : Mei Niang, Liu Longguang, and Yuan Xi / Chen Yan
  • Searching for memories of colonial literature in modern history : centring Mei Niang's border and generational crossings / Zhang Quan
  • Luo Tuosheng and Manchukuo literature : the literary endeavours of a Manchukuo student in imperial Japan / Ōkubo Akio
  • part III. Russian, Japanese, and Korean writers in Manchukuo
  • In the sunken submarine : Russian emigre poetry in Manchukuo / Olga Bakich
  • The imagination of heterogeneous space and implicit transformations of identity : Manchukuo's "Japanese" and "Manchurian" detective novelists / Zhan Li
  • The literary politics of harmonization and dissonance : heterolingual address in Nogawa Takashi's "The people who go to the Hamlet" / Stephen Poland
  • "Manchuria" and the proletarian literature of colonial Korea / Watanabe Naoki
  • Modern Korean literature and Manchukuo /Kim Jaeyong
  • Postscript / Norman Smith.