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Setchūbai
''Seijishōsetsu: Setchūbai'' (政治小説: 雪中梅; "A Political Novel: Plum Blossoms in Snow") is an 1886 Japanese novel written by Tetchō Suehiro. Kyoko Kurita wrote in "The Romantic Triangle in Meiji Literature" that the novel is "a simple Aesopian story (with a happy ending), in which the characters are mere tools to advocate the author's political convictions".Kurita, Kyoko. "The Romantic Triangle in Meiji Literature". In: Hardacre, Helen and Adam Lewis Kern (editors). ''New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan'' (Volume 6 of Brill's Japanese Studies Library). BRILL, 1997. , 9789004107359. p231 Ozaki Yukio stated in his introduction of the novel that it is not merely a romance story but a modern Japanese novel; Kurita argued that this introduction was "generous". The book has a sequel, ''Kakan'ō'' (花間鶯). Plot The book begins on October 3, 2040 (Meiji 173) in Tokyo. Two unnamed men, a host and a guest, discuss how powerful and wealthy Japan has become. The hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetchō Suehiro
, born was a Japanese politician, novelist, and journalist. He was proponent of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement. Born of samurai lineage in what is now Ehime Prefecture, he was the second son of the family. His father, Teisuke, was an accountant. He graduated from a local samurai school and became a teacher in 1869. Thereafter, he moved to Tokyo and worked for the Ministry of Finance for six years before going into the newspaper business. He was imprisoned twice for challenging the existing free press laws and was instrumental in forming the first national political party. He wrote a political, proto-science fiction novel '' Setchūbai'' (''Plum Blossoms in the Snow'', 1886). The income from his books allowed him to travel to the United States and Europe in 1888, around which time he became the temporary travelling companion of Filipino propagandist and patriot Jose Rizal. He would later acknowledge Rizal's influence in another novel, ''Nanyo no daiharan'' (The Great W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future Of A New China
''Xin Zhongguo weilai ji'' (, translated as ''The Future of New China'') is an unfinished 1902 novel by Liang Qichao. Liang described a China in 1962 that was a utopia,Keane, John. ''The Life and Death of Democracy''. Simon and Schuster, June 1, 2009. , 9781847377609. Google Booksbr>PT 636 "Liang Qichao (1873-1929), the peasant boy ..espect for the constitution." a world power, Wang, David Der-wei. "Return to Go: Fictional Innovation in the Late Qing and the Late Twentieth Century" (Chapter 7). In: Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena and Oldřich Král (editors), Graham Martin Sanders (assistant editor). ''The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China's May Fourth Project'' (Volume 207 of Harvard East Asian monographs, ISSN 0073-0483). Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. , 9780674007864. Chapter start: p257 CITED: p286 wealthy, Wang, David Der-wei. "Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937" (Chapter 6). In: Sun Chang, Kang-i and Stephen Owen (editors). ''The Cambridge History of Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Japanese Novels
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanded beyond its British homeland for the first time during the 19th century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, France, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Catholic Church, in response to the growing influence and power of modernism, secularism and materialism, formed the First Vatican Council in the late 19th century to deal with such problems and confirm cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 Novels
Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). February * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * February 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
