A passage to China
Subtitle: literature, loyalism, and colonial Taiwan
By: Chien-hsin Tsai
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 398; Harvard East Asian monographs -- 398.
Publisher: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780674975125
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Japanese influences; Literatures; Intellectual life; Ethnicity in literature; History; Civilization
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From loyalism to postloyalism; title: Qiu Fengjia and lyric poetry after trauma; title: Lian Heng and the poetics of history; title: Lai He, Zhang Shenquie, and topolectal writing; title: Zhong Lihe, Hakka, and hospitality; title: Wu Zhuoliu and orphan as metaphor; title: Conclusion: Toward a postloyal criticism.