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Life of a Party Member

Takiji Kobayashi1932

Kobayashi Takiji's last novella of 1932, published after his murder in 1933: the narrator, living under a false name inside the Kurata factory, rebuilds the party cell with Sayama and Ito amid police spies and unemployment panic—a classic of the party's underground everyday. The Chinese full text is served as local paginated reading on the Chinese side; the only English translation (2013) remains protected.

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Edition and Source Entry

The Chinese full text (Bian Liqiang's 1979 retranslation) is hosted under the Chinese Marxists Internet Archive's default reuse policy and served as local paginated reading on the Chinese side. The only English translation remains under copyright; this entry keeps a bibliographic lookup.

Chinese Edition
Life of a Party Member (Toseikatsusha), Bian Liqiang's 1979 retranslation with translator's afterword, hosted by the Chinese Marxists Internet Archive; served as local paginated reading on the Chinese side
English Edition
Life of a Party Member, trans. Zeljko Cipris, in The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle (University of Hawai'i Press, 2013; protected)
Rights Boundary
Kobayashi died in 1933, so the Japanese original is public domain. The Chinese translation is hosted under the archive's default reuse policy with attribution; the English translation remains protected and is not hosted.
Bibliographic entry (WorldCat)Chinese full text public source (Chinese Marxists Internet Archive)