Kang Kyong-ae (1906-1944) lived and wrote in Japan-ruled Korea. Her fiction explores the experiences of working class Koreans under colonial capitalism. She is the author of the novel Mothers and Daughters, which like The City and the Country was serialized in various Korean journals during the 1930s. At the age of 39, Kang died of a long-standing illness. Samuel Perry is an assistant professor of East Asian studies at Brown University. He has completed several translations of Japanese and Korean literature from the colonial period including Chang Hyok-chu's "Hell of the Starving" and Yi Taejun's "Stone Bridge." He has received grants from the Fulbright Association, International Communication Foundation, Korean Literature Translation Institute, and Korea Foundation.
