The Field of Life and Death

Name: The Field of Life and Death
Author: Xiao Hong

by Xiao Hong

Portrayal of peasant resistance and survival during Japanese occupation of Manchuria

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Xiao Hong

Lyrical Chinese novelist who died at thirty in Hong Kong, leaving a body of work remarkable for its unsentimental honesty about poverty, gender, and colonial disruption. The Field of Life and Death and Tales of Hulan River are her major works.

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