A Study of Ming-Hong Lai and His Works
| Autor: | Chang Ya-Hui, 張雅惠 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 95 Ming-Hong Lai is a mysterious yet significant left-wing intellectual during the 1930s when the Taiwan New Literature Movement was under rapid development. Recent studies on Lai mainly focus on the Nativist Literature Debate and the Taiwanese Language Debate in the 1930’s, as well as Lai’s position as a journalist, commentator and a writer in the culture field. Grown up in an era when the colonial movement shifted to political reformation, Lai’s persistent leftist position and constant concern for the proletarian has made him and his works worthy of analysis. Lai was active in the Nativist Literature Movement and the Modern Chinese Vernacular Movement. As soon as the social-political movement came to an end, in 1933, Lai joined the weekly newspaper agency run by freedom activist and began to address the social issues critically as a journalist. In 1934, while the attention of the leaders of social movement shifted toward the union of writers who believed in Progressivism. On May 6, 1934, a meeting was convened by Lai to unite the writers islandwide and they successfully funded the Taiwanese Cultural Association. To ascertain directions for the Taiwanese New Literature Movement afterwards, Lai left for Tokyo as a representative for the association to look for guidance to take the Taiwanese culture to a cross-region level. After he returned to Taiwan, he became sick and started to voice his opinion as a writer. He was determined to write for Taiwan for his whole life and to assist in issues regarding the Taiwanese New Literature. Shifted from an advocate of the cultural movement to a writer, Lai experienced the most important times during the Taiwanese New Literature Movement. When the literature during the time of war turned its focus to politics, Lai gave up his role as a writer and went to China. Early during the post-war period, Lai was able to voice his opinion as a Taiwanese writer on account that he could write the classical Chinese. As a left-wing intellectual, Lai’s concern for different ethnic groups, his mother land, and the liberation of the politics in the colonized Taiwan inspired him to incorporate socialism into literature to enlighten the public. Though his life as a writer was short, as a “cross-language, cross boundaries, cross-era Taiwanese intellectual, Lai strived to advocate the Taiwanese New Literature Movement. The evaluation of his place in the history during the period of occupation is left to the following generations. Based on limited historical resources, the researcher made an effort to position Lai in history. |
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