Literary
Taiwan (bungei Taiwan/wen-yi T'ai-wan) of such stories
as The
Volunteer Soldier (shigunhei/chih-yuen ping), by Chou
Chin-po (b. 1920), The Way (mitsi/tao), by Ch'en
Huo-ch'uan (b.1908), and other propagandistic poems and
plays.
Disapproving
of both the political stance and artistic orientation of Literary
Taiwan (bungei Taiwan/wen-yi T'ai-wan), some well-known
second-generation writers of Taiwanese New Literature, led
by Chang wen-huang, left Taiwanese Literary Authors' Association
(Taiwan bungeika kyokai/T'ai-wan wen-yi-chia hsieh-hui) and
its organ Literary Taiwan (bungei Taiwan/wen-yi T'ai-wan).
Chang
Wen-huan, together with Lu Ho-jo and Yang K'ui,
organized Open Literature Society (keibun sha/chi-wen-she)
and published Taiwan Literature (Taiwan bungaku/T'ai-wan
wen-hsueh). The magazine was able to sail against the oppressive
political winds, publishing articles reflecting pains of Taiwanese
civilian societies and expressing resistance and criticism
by passive as well as implicit methods.
Taiwan
Literature (Taiwan bungaku/T'ai-wan wen-hsueh) published
perhaps the most important works of the second-generation
writers of Taiwanese New Literature: Capon (enkei/yen-chi)
and Night Monkeys (yasaru/yeh-yuen) by Chang wen-huan;
Wealth, Offspring, and Longevity (zai si ju/ts'ai, tzu,
shou), Peace for the Entire Family (zenka heian/ho-chia
p'ing-an), and Guava (sekiryu/shih-liu) by Lu Ho-jo;
A Village Without Doctors(muison/wu yi ts'un) by Yang
K'ui; and Rapid Torrents (honryu/pen liu) by Ch'ang-hsiung.
This magazine
thus extended the fundamental spirit of Taiwan Literature
under very difficult militaristic environment, but only for
eleven issues.
1943
With evidences
of Japanese defeat gradually building, literary circles formed
Taiwan Literary Public Service Association (Taiwan
bungaku hokokai/T'aiwan wen-hsueh fung-kung-huei) and held
a Taiwan Decisive War Literary Conference (Taiwan ketsusen
bungaku kaigi/T'ai-wan chue-jan wen-hsueh hui-yi) to discuss
ways to establish Decisive War Systems (ketsusen taisei/chueh-jan
tai-hsi) of the Island literature as well as to solicit writers'
support for the war.
Nishikawa
Mitsuru proposed dissolving all civilian associations
including his Literary Taiwan (bungei Taiwan/wen-yi Taiwan).
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