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This article attempts to conduct in-depth research on Huang Chong-Kai, an author born in the 80s. The article aims to provide future researchers with a clearer view of the personal profile of the 1980-generation writers when they want to discuss and locate the 1980-generation as a whole. Therefore, the main writing goal of this article is to review Huang Chong-Kai's life experience, creative process, analyze his novels, and compare them with other writers' works to understand further on his creation. Another part of this article that I will focus on is Huang Chong-Kai‘s latest novel "The Contents of the Times", published in 2017. While reviewing Huang Chong-Kai's works, I found that his fifth novel "The Contents of the Times" has presented different themes and writing strategies in comparison to his first four novels, which can be seen as Huang Chong-Kai's "Taiwan turning point". The term "Taiwan turning point" is used to describe what the author observed in "The Contents of the Times". The subject of writing has clearly shifted to focus more on the changes in Taiwan. "The Contents of the Times" shows a high degree of concern for Taiwan's history, which is rare in Huang Chong-Kai's first four novels. While the novel "The Contents of the Times" is literarily composed on a history-based and spiritually based background of the said timeline. I believe that this writing method is similar to the New Historicism notion that "historical matters are subjective". This article will explore how "The Contents of the Times" can address a story filled with 1980s history and emotion from the perspective of New Historicism novels.
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