{"product_id":"remains-of-life-9780231166010","title":"Remains of Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly 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. \u003ci\u003eRemains of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eRemains of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful literary reckoning with one of the darkest chapters in Taiwan's colonial history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wu He","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42980280598646,"sku":"9780231166010","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/1374\/6550\/files\/CoreSourceHub_900cb872-f1e3-4656-bf45-d14730b1f0d6.jpg?v=1768547543","url":"https:\/\/ingramacademic.com\/products\/remains-of-life-9780231166010","provider":"Ingram Academic \u0026 Professional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}