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The Cannery Boat

Takiji Kobayashi1929

Extreme labor aboard a crab cannery ship links raw-material plunder, colonial waters, metropolitan capital, and the state machine—and pushes scattered fishermen toward organization and revolt.

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Front cover of the 1933 first English edition of The Cannery Boat.

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English full text: the 1933 International Publishers translation (public domain in the United States; abridged, with the closing chapters given as the translator's summary), hosted by Wikisource. Chinese full text: Li Sijing's 1978 annotated translation, hosted by the Chinese Marxists Internet Archive.

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