"This research, the first endeavor in the English academic world to explore Manchukuo literature in its entirety, puts it within the specific cultural lineages and social-political background to illuminate its underlying intellectual dynamics with a focus on four major literary groups, the Manshū rōmanha, Sakubun writers, Yiwenzhi intellectuals, and the Wenxuan group. Through an in-depth investigation into their theoretical proposals and literary praxes, it turns out that oscillating between modernization and national identification, Manchukuo literature took on the features of multiplicity, ambiguity and self-reflexivity which transcended the dichotomy of romanticism and realism and that of the colonizers and the colonized"--
