Drawing on recent scholarship this study effectively re-examines Japan’s policies in Korea from 1910 to 1945 and contributes to the growing field of historical revisionism in Korean colonial history.
In Elegy of a River Shaman, Fang Qi has elegantly woven folk songs and shamanic chants into an intricate, beautiful, and wrenchingly powerful narrative of the destruction and erasure of the traditional culture along the rugged, remote gorges surrounding the Yangzi River.