It was
worth mentioning that Lung Ying-tsung ( b.1911), a
new writer, won the contest sponsored by the magazine Reconstruction
(kaizo/gai-tsao) with his virgin work The Town with Papaya
(papaya no aru machi/chi-yuo mu-kua de hsiao-chen). It again
proved Taiwanese writers' mastery of the Japanese language.
1939 -1940
Taiwan
Literary Author's Association(Taiwan bungeika kyokai/T'ai-wan
wen-yi-chia hsieh-hui) was formed by sixty two Taiwanese and
Japanese writers and poets inclusive of all important authors.
Its organ Literary Taiwan(bungei Taiwan/wen-yi T'ai-wan)
was managed by Japanese writer and poet Nishikawa Mitsuru.
On the surface, it appeared as if both the organization and
the organ were jointly run by Taiwanese and Japanese. However,
they were actually led by the Japanese. And after reorganization
the following year, Nishikawa took over the complete
control.
It published
some Taiwanese literary works, however, most works were of
the Japanese writers resided in Taiwan. Its greatest contribution
must have been the discovery of the then eighteen- year old
writer Yeh Shi-tao (b. 1925) who shone like a star.
The
magazine published a total of forty three issues until the
end of 1943. It was unusual for a literary magazine to last
for so long under colonial regime, except that it was partly
controlled by the colonial government.
1941
On December
7, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and touched off the Pacific War.
With the escalation of the war, the Japanese stepped up their
war campaign efforts and actively mobilized people in the
colony. In Taiwan, they expanded forced draft of a large number
of military coolie (gunpu/chun-fu), Aboriginal volunteers
Corps(Takasago giyutai/kao-sha yi-yung-duei).
1942 -1943
Military
Volunteer Systems and Navy Volunteer systems, Imperialization
Movement (kominka undo/huang-min-hua yung-tung), Changing
Family and Given Name Movement (kaiseimei undo/gai-hsing-ming
yung-tung) were forced upon Taiwanese.
Literary
Patriotism (bungei hokoku/wen-yi bao-kuo) were reflected
in the publication in
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