ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the experience of modern women, Hirabayashi Taiko, with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but her philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, her intellectual capacity to view her experiences in a historical and social context, and her mastery of the art of fiction render the traditional category of 'female-school literature' totally inadequate to characterize her works. The author, Hirabayashi Taiko explains a vital part of Japan's prewar leftist movements, movements which fought against Japan's invasion of Asian countries and domestic class oppression. Therefore she explains her context 'Blind Chinese Soldiers', because of its controlled realism, is a moving short protest against war; the work depicts not only the atrocities committed against the Chinese but also the victimization of common Japanese people who were thrown into a state of confusion and rendered unable to control their lives.
