• Acknowledgments List of Figures
• Introduction: Text and the City
• 1 Discovering Modernity: Sketching Urban Landscapes of Home and Abroad
• 2 Linguistic Modernity: Modernism on the Streets and the Poetry of Kim Kirim and Yang Ch'ih-ch'ang
• 3 Consuming Modernity: Department Stores and Modernist Fiction
• 4 Visual Modernity: Screening Women in Colonial Media
• Postscript: Contemporary Urban Life in Seoul and Taipei
• Appendix: New Words
• Bibliography.
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Urban Modernities reconsiders Japanese colonialism in Korea and Taiwan through a relational study of modernist literature and urban aesthetics from the late colonial period. By charting intra-Asian and transregional circulations of writers, ideas, and texts, it reevaluates the dominant narrative in current scholarship that presents Korea and Taiwan as having vastly different responses to and experiences of Japanese colonialism. By comparing representations of various colonial spaces ranging from the nation, the streets, department stores, and print spaces to underscore the shared experiences of the quotidian and the poetic, Jina E. Kim shows how the culture of urban modernity enlivened networks of connections between the colonies and destabilized the metropole-colony relationship, thus also contributing to the broader formation of global modernism.
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• Series Editors' Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Romanization and Translation Introduction: Relocating the Multilingual New Taiwanese Literature
• Chapter 1 The Nationalist Paradigm of Taiwan Literature: Lai He
• Chapter 2 From Nationalism to Socialism: Yang Kui
• Chapter 3 Popular Romances and their Alternative Modernity: Xu Kunquan and Wu Mansha
• Chapter 4 Stylistic Reorientation and Innovation: Lu Heruo, Long Yingzong, and Weng Nao
• Chapter 5 How to Become "Japanese"?: Chen Huoquan, Wang Changxiong, and Zhou Jinbo
• Chapter 6 The Lure of China: Wu Zhuoliu and Zhong Lihe Epilogue: Toward a Multifaceted Literary Commonwealth Bibliography Glossary Index.
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This book offers a thorough and thought-provoking study on the impact of Japanese colonialism on Taiwan's literary production from the 1920s to 1945. It redresses the previous nationalist and Japan-centric interpretations of works from Taiwan's Japanese period, and eschews a colonizer/colonized dichotomy. Through a highly sensitive textual analysis and contextual reading, this chronologically structured book paints a multi-layered picture of colonial Taiwan's literature, particularly its multi-styled articulations of identities and diverse visions of modernity. By engaging critically with current scholarship, Lin has written with great sentiment the most complete history of the colonial Taiwanese literary development in English.
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• shang Minjian, Gudian wenxue lunshu
• xia Xin wenxue lunshu.

• 上. 民間・古典文學論述
• 下. 新文學論述.

$a 以台湾文学为考察中心, 综合运用影响研究, 叙事学, 新历史主义, 文化人类学等方法, 对中国现代文学构成因素进行细致分析, 论述中国现代文学传统对台湾当代文学的影响, 以及台湾当代作家对现代文学传统是如何理解, 阐释, 继承, 借鉴和创新的, 系统地梳理了台湾当代文学与中国现代文学传统的关系.

• Shang bian. Xi chao dong jian : di yi du xi chao yu xie shi zhu yi
• Zhong bian. Zhan huo yu fen liu : xi chao de zhong duan
• Xia bian. Fen liu hou de zai sheng : di er du xi chao yu xian dai/hou xian dai zhu yi.

• 上編. 西潮東漸 : 第一度西潮與寫實主義
• 中編. 戰禍與分流 : 西潮的中斷
• 下編. 分流後的再生 : 第二度西潮與現代/後現代主義.

• Introduction: Literary Taiwan--An East Asian Contextual Perspective
• Part I: The Beginnings and Entry Into Modernity Through Colonial Mediation (1728-1948) 37
• 1. Preface to Volume 1 of Jade Ruler Between Sky and Sea (1728)
• 2. Preface to Collection of Coral Branches (Eighteenth Century)
• 3. Preface Number 5 (by the Author) (1816)
• 4. Ars Poetica (Mid-nineteenth Century)
• 5. Elucidating the Meaning of Literature
• 6. Congratulations on the Founding of the Taiwan Literary Society
• 7. On the New Mission to Promote Vernacular Writing
• 8. On Reforming Classical Chinese
• 9. A Letter to the Youth of Taiwan
• 10. The Awful Literary Scene of Taiwan
• 11. On Reading "A Comparison of Old and New Literature" in the Taiwan Daily News
• 12. Diary
• 13. Advance
• 14. The Solitary Spirits League and the Anarchist Theater Movement
• 15. Why Not Promote Nativist Literature?
• 16. Annotation on Three-Six-Nine Little Gazette
• 17. A Proposal on the Construction of Taiwanese Vernacular Writing
• 18. On Reforming the Taiwanese Vernacular
• 19. The Prospect of Popular Literature
• 20. A Giant Bomb on the Old Poetry Scene
• 21. Elegant Words
• 22. Absolute Objection to Nativist Literature Written in the Taiwanese Vernacular
• 23. On Taiwan's Nativist Literature
• 24. Burning Hair--the Rites of Poetry
• 25. Writing on the Wall
• 26. Manifesto
• 27. Foreword: Understanding Folk Literature
• 28. Art Belongs to the People
• 29. The Historical Mission of Taiwan Literary Arts
• 30. Miscellaneous Thoughts on Literature--Two Types of Atmosphere
• 31. Poetry Snippets: On Highbrow
• 32. Preface to Mountain Spirit
• 33. Youth and Taiwan (II): Ideal and Reality of the New Drama Movement
• 34. A Chat with the Governor-General About Discontinuing Chinese Columns in Daily Newspapers
• 35. Why Can't Taiwan's Art Scene Advance?
• 36. Criticism and Guidance Welcomed
• 37. On the Future of Taiwanese Literature
• 38. The Prospect of Taiwanese Literature
• 39. The Past, Present, and Future of Taiwanese Literature
• 40. On Building a Literary Scene in Taiwan
• 41. Diary (1942-1944)
• 42. Responsibility of the Literati on the Island
• 43. Taiwanese Theater in the Current Stage of Development
• 44. A Conversation on Taiwanese Culture
• 45. A Commentary on Current Literature
• 46. Kuso Realism and Pseudo-Romanticism
• 47. An Open Letter to Mr. Shiwai Min
• 48. Good Writing, Bad Writing
• 49. In Defense of Kuso Realism
• 50. The Thorny Road Continues
• 51. Our Propositions
• 52. The Path of Bridge--Report on the Second Writers' Gathering
• 53. Questions and Answers Concerning Taiwanese Literature
• Part II: Wading Through the Cold War Under Martial Law (1949-1987) 159
• 1. Inaugural Preface to Literary Creation
• 2. Declaration
• 3. Inaugural Preface to Military Literature: Establishing a Modernized, Populist, Revolutionary, and Combative National Literature
• 4. Poetry Is Poetry; Song Is Song; We Do Not Say "Poem-Song"
• 5. Explicating the Tenets of the Modernist School
• 6. To the Reader
• 7. A Critique of Peng Ge's Setting Moon and a Discussion of the Modern Novel
• 8. Newsletter of Literary Friends: Correspondence Between Zhong Zhaozheng and Zhong Lihe
• 9. Notes from the Editors of Epoch Poetry Quarterly
• 10. On Symbolist Poetry and Chinese New Poetry: A Rejoinder to Professor Su Xuelin
• 11. Five Years Later
• 12. To the Poet Ya Xian
• 13. Random Talk on New Poetry No.
• 4: Whither It Goes?
• 14. Taiwanese Writers Whose Works Burst with Local Color
• 15. Notes of a Poet
• 16. Introduction to Modern Literature
• 17. One Year of Modern Literature
• 18. Preface to Selected Poems of the 1960s
• 19. On Yu Guangzhong's Sirius the Dog Star
• 20. Goodbye, Nihilism!
• 21. Preface to the Japanese Edition of The Orphan of Asia
• 22. An Open Letter to Guo Lianghui
• 23. An Announcement from the Chinese Writers Association
• 24. I Do Not Value The Locked Heart and Membership in the Writers Association
• 25. Cutting Off the Prose Braids
• 26. Lower the Flag to Half-Mast for May Fourth!
• 27. Message from the Editors
• 28. Postscript to Carefree Wandering
• 29. Toward a New Departure in Modernism: Thoughts on the Recent Production of Waiting for Godot
• 30. The Girl with Long Black Hair: The Author's Preface
• 31. The Evolution of Modern Poetry in Taiwan
• 32. Epigraph to the Inaugural Issue
• 33. On the Predicament of Modern Chinese Poets
• 34. On the Special Issue of Retrospect
• 35. Not Our Paradise
• 36. Benchmarks in Fiction Criticism: Reading Tang Jisong's "Autumn Leaves by Ouyang Zi"
• 37. Qideng Sheng's "Polio" Style
• 38. Take Pains to Read, Take Care to Evaluate Family Catastrophe
• 39. Looking Forward to a New Kind of Literature
• 40. Two Kinds of Spirit in Taiwanese Literature: A Comparison of Yang Kui and Zhong Lihe
• 41. Author's Preface
• 42. She Is a True Student of China: On Reading Zhang Ailing on Reading
• 43. Should the Ban on May Fourth and 1930s Writings Be Lifted?
• 44. Grassroots Manifesto
• 45. The Past Decade of Taiwanese Literature (1965-1975)--with Remarks on Wang Wenxing's Family Catastrophe
• 46. The Pursuit and Disappearance of Utopia
• 47. Random Thoughts: Author's Preface
• 48. Starting from the Flaws of Taipei People: On the Method and Practice of Literary Criticism
• 49. Looking Back
• 50. Preface to Three-Three Journal
• 51. It is Realist Literature, Not Nativist Literature-- A Historical Analysis of Nativist Literature
• 52. Introduction to the History of Nativist Literature in Taiwan
• 53. The Blind Spot of Nativist Literature
• 54. Where Is Literature Without Human Nature?
• 55. Xiangtu Wenxue: Its Merits and Demerits
• 56. Impressions Gleaned from the Conference on Literary Arts Organized by the Armed Forces: The Bugle of Unity
• 57. Notes on the Publication of Essays on Nativist Literature
• 58. Two Types of Literary Mind: On Two Short Stories That Won the United Daily Fiction Contest
• 59. Ten Years of Flowing River
• 60. Foreword to Anthology of the Modern Chinese Essay
• 61. Preface to Thirty Eventful Years: The Predicament Facing the Newspaper Literary Supplement in Taiwan at Present and a Way Out
• 62. Looking Back at the Chinese Literary Arts Association
• 63. Taiwan Consciousness of the Taiwanese People
• 64. Influence and Response! From Concern, Engagement, and Action to "We Have Only One Earth"
• 65. Footprints, Sort Of: Superfluous Words on the Launch of the Newsletter of Literary Friends
• 66. Eternal Quest (in Lieu of a Preface)
• 67. The Question of Nativization in Taiwanese Literature at the Present Stage
• 68. House of Salt--by Way of Introduction
• 69. Flaws and Mercy--Preface to The Mulberry Sea
• 70. The Translingual Generation of Poets: Beginning with the Silver Bell Society
• 71. Heralding a Taiwanese Dawn: Introducing Lin Shuangbu, Novelist of the New Generation, and Appraising Taiwan's Enfeebled Fiction
• 72. Sacrificing a Life to Literature Is Nothing to Boast About
• 73. A Painful Confession
• 74. Something Out of Nothing: On Improvisation and Theater
• Part III: The Era of Democracy and Globalization (1987-2005) 375
• 1. Preface to Series in Contemporary Mainland Chinese Writers: Replies to Inquiries
• 2. Coming Together for a Long Journey Ahead: Celebrating the Birth of the Taipei Theater Fellowship
• 3. Preface to Heteroglossia
• 4. Writing a Literature with a Nationality
• 5. Recovering Our Names
• 6. Preface to Complete Works of Taiwanese Writers
• 7. If the Poets Don't Die, the Thieves Won't Quit: The Predicament of Taiwan's Poetry Scene and How to Resolve It
• 8. She Waves the Flag: Preface to Ping Lu's New Collection Who Killed XXX?
• 9. Diary
• 10. Literature of the Military Family Village: The Inheritance and Abandonment of Homesickness
• 11. Discovering a New Taiwan: On Wang Qimei's Collage
• 12. Inaugural Editorial of the Taiwanese Poetics Quarterly 402
• 13. The World of Mountains and Seas: Preface to the Inaugural Issue of the Culture of Mountains and Seas Bimonthly
• 14. Who Is Going to Wear My Beautiful Knit Dress?
• 15. Summer Mist
• 16. Postscript to On the Island's Edge
• 17. On Ku'er: Reflections on Ku'er and Ku'er Literature in Contemporary Taiwan
• 18. Preface: Just Who Is the Devil with a Chastity Belt?
• 19. Wandering in Gods' Garden (in Lieu of a Preface)
• 20. Saving a Boatload of Starlight: The Story of How Mr. Wang Tiwu Gave Financial Assistance to Young Writers
• 21. The Activist Character of the Literary Supplement to the United Daily
• 22. Newspaper Literary Supplements and the Nobel Prize in Literature: A Personal Reflection
• 23. On Bai
• 24. Retrospect on Thirty Years of Taiwan Literary Arts
• 25. Foreword II: On Taiwan's Literary Canon
• 26. To the Reader: Preface to the Unitas Edition of Complete Works of Luo Zhicheng
• 27. Broken Chinese and Good Work
• 28. Like a Road Sign That Looks Ahead and Behind: Introduction to Compendium of Taiwanese-Language Literature
• 29. The Brave New World of the Mother Tongue: Taiwanese-language Literature Under Construction
• 30. A Flower Recalls Its Previous Incarnation: Remembering Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng
• 31. The Mysterious Revelations of Nature Writing
• 32. Building a Bridge for Taiwanese Literature: Foreword to the Newsletter of the National Museum of Taiwan Literature
• 33. A Perspective on Prose
• 34. My Story of the Chinese Language--Roaming
• 35. A First Step out of "Migration Literature"
• 36. Hakka Literature, Literary Hakka
• 37. The End of the Military Family Village
• 38. Interview with Wu He
• 39. Zhang Xiaofeng on Prose
• 40. Preface to the New Edition of Born Under the Twelfth Star Sign
• 41. Ocean Tide Loves Me Best: A Dialogue Between Sun Dachuan and Xiaman Lanpoan.

This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese literature.These texts illuminate Asia' s experience with modernization, colonialism, and postcolonialism; the character of Taiwan' s Cold War and post--Cold War cultural production; gender and environmental issues; indigenous movements; and the changes and challenges of the digital revolution. Taiwan' s complex history with Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese colonization; strategic geopolitical position vis-a-vis China, Japan, and the United States; and status as a hub for the East-bound circulation of technological and popular-culture trends make the nation an excellent case study for a richer understanding of East Asian and modern global relations.
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• 1. Academic Contexts and Conceptual Frameworks
• 2. Political and Market Factors in the Literary Field
• 3. Soft-Authoritarian Rule and the Mainstream Position
• 4. The Modernist Trend and Aestheticization of the "China Trope" in Mainstream Literature
• 5. Localist Position as a Product of Social Opposition
• 6. Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction
• 7. High Culture Aspirations and Transformations of Mainstream Fiction
• 8. New Developments in the Post-Martial Law Period.
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With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent reality of market domination in a relatively autonomous, increasingly professionalized field. This book argues that the concept of a field of cultural production is essential to accounting for the ways in which writers and editors respond to political and economic forces. It traces the formation of dominant concepts of literature, competing literary trends, and how these ideas have met political and market challenges. Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order.
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