A Passage to China : Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan / Chien-Hsin Tsai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsai, Chien-Hsin, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 398.

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 398

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--Japanese influences.

Civilization.

Ethnicity in literature.

Taiwan--Intellectual life.

Taiwan.

Taiwan--Literatures.

Taiwan--History--1895-1945.

Taiwan--Civilization--Japanese influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2017.

Other Title:

Literature, Loyalism, and Colonial Taiwan

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.

Summary:

"Considers the ways in which Taiwan's cession to Japan forever changed Taiwanese writers' and intellectuals' perception of and loyalty to China. Examines the reformulation of traditional Chinese loyalism in colonial Taiwan and the creative ways that select writers employed different genres, mother and foreign tongues, and the notion of ethnicity to accomplish their goals"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: From loyalism to postloyalism

Qiu Fengjia and lyric poetry after trauma

Lian Heng and the poetics of history

Writing sounds and reading voices

Zhong Lihe, Hakka, and hospitality

Wu Zhuoliu and orphan as metaphor

Conclusion: Toward a postloyal criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [306]-327) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68417-573-9

OCLC:

1048113074

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175734 DOI