{"product_id":"9780231544641","title":"Remains of Life","description":"On 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 long forgotten Musha Incident to search for any survivors and their descendants. The result is Wu He’s novel\u003cem\u003e Remains of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which imagines the impetus behind this disturbing event and questions its legitimacy and accuracy. In his novel, Wu He walks a tightrope between the primitive and the civilized, beauty and violence, fact and fiction.His is a one-of-a-kind work and a milestone in Chinese literature, winning nearly every major national literary award upon its publication in Taiwan, including the Taipei Creative Writing Award for Literature, the \u003cem\u003eChina Times\u003c\/em\u003e’s Ten Best Books of the Year Award, the\u003cem\u003e United Daily\u003c\/em\u003e Readers’s Choice Award, \u003cem\u003eMing Pao\u003c\/em\u003e’s Ten Best Books of the Year Award, and the Kingstone Award for the Most Influential Book of the Year.","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120173433072,"sku":"9780231544641","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231544641_p0.jpg?v=1763679385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231544641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}