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Author Tsai, Chien-hsin, 1975- author.

Title A passage to China : literature, loyalism, and colonial Taiwan / Chien-hsin Tsai
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Description 1 online resource
Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 398
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 398.
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
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
Subject Ethnicity in literature.
Civilization -- Japanese influences.
Ethnicity in literature.
Intellectual life.
SUBJECT Taiwan -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86005285
Taiwan -- Literatures
Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131990
Taiwan -- Civilization -- Japanese influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007068
Subject Taiwan.
Genre/Form History.
Literatures.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684175734
1684175739