About the author
Yao Fei is an author about whom limited public information is available. Her writing is primarily documentary, with some literary work with a local flavor. The library holds two of her works. The first, Evidence: Uncovering 172 Comfort Stations in Shanghai, is an investigation and documentation of comfort stations in the Shanghai area, combining archival research with documentary writing and showing the author's attention to historical sites and chains of evidence. The second, City Red and Yunnan Green, judging by its title, reflects urban and Yunnan regional experience and is closer to literary observation and narrative. Though the two works differ markedly in subject, they together show the author's ability to move between documentary and literary writing: on the one hand attending to materials, places, and facts, and on the other noticing local scenery and the texture of language. As information such as birth and death dates, nationality, education, and personal experience is unavailable, a full biography cannot yet be outlined; only a brief account of the orientation of her existing works can be given.
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Rating 3.5★ Red City, Green Yunnan 姚霏 East China Normal University Press · 2019 One of the "East China Normal University Writers Series." It is divided into three sections—avant-garde texts, fictional northern Yunnan, and fragment… Rating 4.6★ Evidence: Revealing 172 Comfort Stations in Shanghai 苏智良 / 陈丽菲 / 姚霏 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2018 The "comfort women" system was a wartime institution of Japanese militarism: during its invasion of China and other Asian countries, women from many n…Publishers
Shanghai Jiao Tong University PressEast China Normal University Press