An Unlikely Trajectory : Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Pei-yin.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Examines various case studies to provide a multifaceted understanding of Taiwan's literary and cultural leftism, emphasizing its transnational, diverse, and highly malleable nature.An Unlikely Trajectory addresses a significant gap by foregrounding the often repressed or understudied literary and cultural leftist practices in Taiwan.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Romanization

Introduction

The Colonial Era

The Postwar Years

Latest Development

Chapter Layout

Notes

Bibliography

Part I. The Colonial Era

1 Literary Leftism in Colonial Taiwan: The Cases of Lai He, Yang Kui, and Lü Heruo

Lai He's Nationalist and Humanitarian Concerns

Yang Kui's International Proletariats' Collaboration

Lü Heruo's Historical Materialism and Taiwanese Family Tales

Conclusion

2 Butterflies! The Revolutionary Muses: Wang Baiyuan's Poetry Translation in Shanghai, 1936-1946

Flying to the Holy Battlefield: Wang's Two Collections of Poetry Translation in 1946 and 1937

Studying and Exile in the Motherland

The First Collection of Translated Poetry in 1936

3 Rereading Jiang Weishui's Revolutionary Politics and Contribution to Anti-Imperialism

Jiang's Early Formation

Jiang's Internationalism: "Be the Bridge Between Japan and China"

Jiang's Nationalism: "A National Liberation Front That Has the Workers and Peasants as Its Foundation"

Jiang's Logic of Organization: "The Party Is the Organizing Machine of Taiwanese People's Liberation Movement"

Part II. The Early Postwar Era (1945-1960s)

4 The Dissemination of Early Postwar Leftism Through the Reception of Lu Xun in Taiwan (1925-1949)

Transmission of Lu Xun's Works in Colonial Taiwan

Transmission of Lu Xun's Works in Early Postwar Taiwan

Reappearance of "Mr. Fujino" in Early Postwar Taiwan

5 Identities, Genealogy, and Political Actions of Left-Wing Female Political Victims of the White Terror in the 1950s

Socialism in Taiwan and the Formation of Left-Wing Female Thought.

"The Personal Is Political": Women's Experience-Informed Politics

Female Genealogy, Political Consciousness, and Political Activity of Left-Wing Women

Xu Jinyu and Ji Meizhen: Mentorship and Labor Activism

Zhang Jinjue, Ye Tao, and Others: Networks of Political Recruitment and Cultural Resistance

Xu Yueli, Ms. Hotta, Ye Tao, and Her Female Fellow Inmates: Transnational Networks and Prison Solidarity

Feng Shou'e, Xiao Sumei, and Ji Meizhen

6 Revelation and Evocation: On Su Beng's 400-Year History of the Taiwanese People as National History

Taiwan's First National History

The Late-Maturing National History Writing: The Context of Creole Nationalism

The Prototype of Taiwanese National History: 400-Year History of the Taiwanese People, the First Japanese Edition (1962)

Historical Consciousness Nurtured Through Revolutionary Practice: The First Chinese Edition of 400-Year History (1980)

Conclusion: Revelation and Evocation

Part III. The 1970s and 1980s

7 The Dialectics of Revolution and Betrayal: Chen Yingzhen's Socialist Christianity in "The Story of Judas Iscariot"

Betrayal for the Revolutionary Cause

Two Judases and One Jesus

Left-Wing Jesus and Rebellious Judas: Chen's Engagement with Participatory Theology

Conclusion: Betrayal as Method

8 Guo Songfen, "Moon Seal," and the Rift in Mid-Twentieth Century

"Moon Seal": The Conflict of Two Citizen Ethics

A Retrospective View of Literary History

9 A Critical Topography of Work: Baigongtu's Alternative Media Activism in 1980s Taiwan

Unlikely Genealogy: Remapping the Figure of Work Through State Infrastructure

The Portrait's Audiovisual Activism: Mutual-Referencing and Self-Reflexivity.

Occupation as Micro-Class: Postindustrial Taiwan and Its Categorical Imperative

Part IV. The Post-Martial Law Era

10 Remembering Taiwanese Socialism: Xie Xuehong in Cross-Strait Historical Memory

Taiwanese Socialist/Feminist/Nationalist: Chen Fangming's Vision of Xie Xuehong

The Taimeng Responds: Zhang Kehui's Ah! Xie Xuehong and the Construction of a Pan-Chinese Martyr

Revolution's Liberal Ideological Enclosure: Puli Township's February 28 Memorial

Hsieh Hsueh-hung: A Play by Wang Chi-mei and the Question of Feminist Representation

Conclusion: Resisting Ideological Enclosures, or Embracing the Complexity of Lived History

11 Delocalizing Sinophone, or the Literature of Left-Wing South: Ng Kim-chew's Stories of Malayan Communists

The Failure of Homecoming

Literature of the Nationless

Imagining a Southern Left-Wing Literature

12 The "Postcolonial Left" and "Ethnicity-Oriented Class Narrative" in Taiwan's Literary Historiography

The "Leftist Narrative" in Taiwan's Postcolonial Literary Historiography

The "Class Inequality" Surface of Ethnic Opposition

Class Relations in Nativist Novels

Conclusion: The Class Perspective Obscured by Ethnic Identity

Glossary

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Lin, Pei-yin An Unlikely Trajectory

ISBN:

9798855806311

OCLC:

1581074597