ABSTRACT
27 October 1999. The author clearly remember that day when he first met Mei Niang. He travelled from Vancouver to Beijing with his mother and a friend. The first morning in Beijing, jet-lagged, they took a taxi from downtown to her apartment in the northwest of the city. Up several flights they went to Mei Niang’s apartment, which was not large but comfortable, filled with books, papers, and mementos, mostly from the previous 20 years of a life long-lived. The following year, the author returned to Beijing in the spring to visit Mei Niang, Lan Ling, and Liu Qing. A sandstorm enveloped the capital. In the morning, day turned to night, as the taxi entered onto an overpass. In the spring of 2008, the author returned to Mei Niang’s home in Beijing with the result of many years of work – his first book, Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation.
