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The purpose of this research is to establish a relatively complete the life and works of Liao Han-Chen who is an advance-guard of the new Literature movement of Taiwan in the 1930s. This paper produced Liao Han-Chen’s life and works chronology, and found out some facts the previous research were rarely mentioned and discussed before. For example, Liao Han-Chen’s family members were anecdote about his sister Liao Qiu-Gui was a reporter for “Taiwan Daily News”. Also, from 1931 to 1932, he went to Tōa Dōbun Gakuin University to study Chinese vernacular for one year. In the post-war period, the publication of “Zhou Zuo-Ren in Prison” in “Taiwan Wen Hua” shows that after the end of the Second World War, the Taiwanese faced the transfer of sovereignty between Japan and Republic of China. And Taiwanese have a complicated clean-up mechanism and a positive mind with reconstruction. In addition, his “Discussion on Controversy of Taiwanese Modern and Historical Literature during Japanese” published in “Taipei Historical Documents Quarterly” and his documentary literature of the 1950s and 1970s, the writing appraise of Taiwanese Modern and Historical Literature during Japanese are due to the space-time atmosphere to transform.
Secondly, this paper uses the first-hand data checking the information of second-hand data reveal. For example: Lin Kui-Qing submitted Liao Han-Chen’s “Introduction to Taiwan’s New Literary Movement" to the issue of “Shun Pao” in 1943, and changed title to “Talk about Taiwan’s cultural” by “Ya-Fu”. The significance of “Talk about Taiwan's cultural” is not only to introduce the Taiwanese cultural to the China, but also to remind China and Japan at every time that Taiwan cannot be ignored as a bridge of communication between China and Japan. In addition, the confirmation of the publication order of “Liao Tian-Ding under the Taipei City” and “鯤島爭雄記”. The remarkable progress to show Liao Han-Chen’s writing skills across his ages. And he is more familiar with the historical materials and masters the history of Taiwan. After the characters, events, customs and environment in story, it is closer to his original literary view that “Taiwan’s literature must truly reflect Taiwan’s objective reality.”
Finally, this paper arranged Liao Han-Chen’s friends from youth to old age. Hope that future research can used this paper to understand his cultural resource management. This paper also hopes people can re-understand the research of writers. It is not a slogan of the research object, but through listening silence speak to deeper understanding, and then touches the answer to the breakthrough. |