Unlikely Trajectory

Pei-yin Lin is Associate Professor at the School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong. She is the author Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity Through Literature and coeditor, with Wen-chi Li, of Taiwanese Literature as World Literature. Po-hsi Chen is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

"The essays in this important anthology contribute to the field of Taiwan studies, especially in shedding new light around such crucial topics as anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, sociopolitical activism, national movements, labor unionisms, and state media, among others, to discuss the ways in which Taiwanese intellectuals and writers have responded to American, Chinese, and Japanese leftist influences." — Ping-hui Liao, University of California, San Diego"An Unlikely Trajectory is a great addition to Taiwan studies. The dominant themes are the diversity and the transnationality of the leftist legacy in Taiwan. Taiwan presents a unique case due to its geographical, cultural, and temporal positions at the crossroads of Chinese, Japanese, British, and American empires. The volume thus makes a special contribution to the broader international scholarship on leftist and socialist movements in Asia and across the globe. Specialists on socialist literature or political movements worldwide will find this volume a rewarding read." — Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Acknowledgments Notes on Romanization Introduction Pei-yin Lin and Po-hsi Chen Part I. The Colonial Era 1. Literary Leftism in Colonial Taiwan: The Cases of Lai He, Yang Kui, and Lü Heruo Pei-yin Lin 2. Butterflies! The Revolutionary Muses: Wang Baiyuan's Poetry Translation in Shanghai, 1936–1946Liu Liu Shu-chin, translated by Pei-yin Lin, Po-hsi Chen, and Blake Brownrigg 3. Rereading Jiang Weishui's Revolutionary Politics and Contribution to Anti-Imperialism Nick T. C. Lu Part II. The Early Postwar Era (1945–1960s) 4. The Dissemination of Early Postwar Leftism Through the Reception of Lu Xun in Taiwan (1925–1949) Huang Ying-che, translated by Yi-hung Liu 5. Identities, Genealogy, and Political Actions of Left-Wing Female Political Victims of the White Terror in the 1950s Li Shu-chun, translated by Alec Martin 6. Revelation and Evocation: On Su Beng's 400-Year History of the Taiwanese People as National History Rwei-ren Wu Part III. The 1970s and 1980s 7. The Dialectics of Revolution and Betrayal: Chen Yingzhen's Socialist Christianity in "The Story of Judas Iscariot" Po-hsi Chen 8. Guo Songfen, "Moon Seal," and the Rift in Mid-Twentieth Century Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 9. A Critical Topography of Work: Baigongtu's Alternative Media Activism in 1980s TaiwanLawrence Zi-qiao Yang Part IV. The Post–Martial Law Era 10. Remembering Taiwanese Socialism: Xie Xuehong in Cross-Strait Historical MemoryMark McConaghy 11. Delocalizing Sinophone, or the Literature of Left-Wing South: Ng Kim-chew's Stories of Malayan Communists Ling Kang 12. The "Postcolonial Left" and "Ethnicity-Oriented Class Narrative" in Taiwan's Literary HistoriographyLin Yun-hung, translated by Pei-yin LinGlossary List of Contributors Index