Fiction. East Asia Studies. Translated from the Korean by Samuel Perry. A classic revolutionary novel of the 1930s and the first complete work written by a woman before the Korean War to be published in English. FROM WONSO POND transforms the love triangle between three protagonists into a revealing portrait of love and labor set against the backdrop of Japan's colonization of Korea. "A vibrant account of the travails of Japanese colonialism as experienced by workers and women by the pioneering feminist writer of the Korean left"--Andre Schmid, author of Korea Between Empires.

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Kang Kyong-ae (1906-1944) was born in Japan-ruled Korea and spent much of her adult life writing from her home in neighboring Manchuria. She is the author of many short stories and the novel Mothers and Daughters, which was also serialized in Korean journals during the 1930s. Kang died at the age of thirty-nine.

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