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Since 1970s the process of becoming a classic began, including the publication of the complete works, biographical film and the Memorial Institute, today Zhong Lihe has been a 1950s Taiwan classical author. This development reflect the political, social and cultural changes in Taiwan over the past 30 years, also is a another way to understand Taiwan literature. Meanwhile, through the lasting local participation and across-boundary cooperation for years, the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute as a part of Meinong neighborhood museums plays the important role different from other literary museums. Recently years Taiwan literary museum increases, there is a good case providing us for thinking how the role of literature and literary museums in the contemporary society can be. This research as the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute a core, explored the complicated interaction between literary discourses, film narrative, politics of exhibition, cultural fields and local communities, as well as the interpretations of them.
There are three steps to analyse. The second chapter I reexamine the procsse of becoming classic in Taiwanese and Chinese scholar, figuring out the distinguishing features of each periods. Because of the special life experience and ambiguous works, Zhong Lihe has attracted cross-Strait scholar’s attention, and approximately there are two type of discourses about author. One pursues the subjectivity and indigenization of Taiwanese iiterature, the other emphasizes the cross-Strait reunification of left-winf and nation. The third chapter restructure the history of the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute, indicating that the exhibition narrative strategy always based on the indigenization of Taiwanese iiterature, but there are some subtle differences. The middle-stage of display appealed to affection of visitor, invoking Taiwanese nationalism. And it condensed into short, self-contained and objective narrative, opening the interpretative perspectives of the writer’s symbol. The fourth chapter further elaborated the field of the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute how to diffuse its cultural influence and effect. By means of the Lishan literary camps, literary landscape and various cultural reproductions, the memorial institute extends, activates and communicates the symbol of Zhong Lihe. It inherits the social participation and ecological conservation of Meinung Anti-dam Movement, a small but firm civil cultural base has taken shape. The research above will show that from the chinese orthodoxy, indigenization of Taiwan to today the co-existence of multi-culture and ethnic, the author image and position of the Zhong Lihe Memorial Institute has changed several times, and this specific case is significant in Taiwan.
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