 | Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army Subjects: Kawashima Yoshiko 1906?-1948; Women spies -- Japan -- Biography; Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945 -- Biography; Chinese -- Japan -- Biography; Princesses -- China -- Manchuria -- Biography; China -- History -- Republic 1912-1949 -- Biography; Japan -- Hist; A sensational, myth-busting biography of a woman who thrived and fell upon the turmoil of her era. Phyllis Birnbaum is a novelist, biographer, journalist, and translator. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Times Literary Supplement , and other publications. Her books include Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese Women and a biography, Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West . She recently edited an English translation of Clouds Above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War . She lives outside of Boston. |
