A history and annotation of Taiwan hsieh-shih (realist) fiction, 1920-1979
| dc.contributor.author | Haddon, Rosemary M. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-14T16:41:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-14T16:41:56Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1985 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1985 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | During the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan (1895- 1945), a number of social and literary movements took place in the colony which in many ways resemble the May Fourth Movement in China. Collectively entitled the Taiwan New Literature Movement (1920- 1937), these movements produced the first vernacular forms in Taiwan-the pai-hua ( "plain speech") which is rooted in the Chinese classical language (wen- yen-wen). These forms, first romantic then realist in genre, derived their primary stylistic influence from romantic and realist literature from China which was reprinted in Taiwan journals in the mid-l920s . World literary influences, particularly nineteenth-century European literature, also played their part in shaping Taiwan's vernacular. The first instance of a home-grown Taiwanese literature appeared with the works of Lai Ho (1894- 1943). These fictional pieces, written in a style of realism (hsieh-shih) which set a dominant trend in subsequent Taiwan fiction, were the first specimens of Hsiang-t'u (Homeland or Native Soil) literature in Taiwan . To date, Hsiang-t'u literature is Taiwan ' s first and only truly regional literature. After brief periods of sublimation, Taiwan realist fiction reemerged in the decades of the 1960s and 1970s as the product of the first native Taiwanese generation of writers. In the mid-1970s, this literary form blossomed in t he Hsiang-t' u Literary Movement during which writers such as Huang Ch'un-ming (1939-), Wang T'o (1944-), and Ch'en Ying-chen (1937--) wrote highly didactic stories based upon their perception of the corruption of Taiwan society and life . During this phase , Hsiang-t'u literature was reduced to little more than ideological polemics directed against the American and Japanese presence in Taiwan. The Hsiang-t'u movement was brought to an end in 1979. Since that time , however, the realist style has continued in the works of younger native Taiwanese writers such as Sung Tse-lai. These contemporary fictional pieces are a tribute to and reaffirmation of the spirit and greatness of Lai Ho- Taiwan's "Pioneer of Vernacular Fiction." | |
| dc.format.extent | 158 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18024 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | A history and annotation of Taiwan hsieh-shih (realist) fiction, 1920-1979 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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