Book #10 on The China Project Ultimate China Bookshelf – Riichi Yokomitsu’s Shanghai (1928)

Book #10 in my Ultimate China Bookshelf for The China Project – Riichi Yokomitsu’s novel Shanghai. Japanese critics regarded Riichi Yokomitsu as the best of his generation. His novel Shanghai, published in 1928 (but set during the May 30th Incident of 1925), depicts a melting pot where cultures mixed and ideas were exchanged—including, yes, between the Chinese and Japanese. Click here to read.

Riichi Yokomitsu in 1928, the year he published Shanghai He was already being referred to as bungaku no kamisama (a god of literature).