英文摘要 |
What is the historical connection between socialism and decolonization? This essay argues that the reason why decolonization failed to unfold in a systematic way in the postwar years had something to do with the emergence of global Cold War structure, which intercepted and postponed this crucial project, so that decolonization, historically speaking, became no more than the independence and nation-building of individual countries. However, in East Asia at the same time, socialism occupied such pivotal positions with its great successes in the Mainland China, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam. So much so that many leftists inside and outside the region relied upon it as their frame of reference. This juxtaposition prompts us to reexamine how the Third World leftists viewed, tackled, and faced up to decolonization. With this problematic in mind, this essay revisits the Third World in Chen Yingzhen’s fiction by tracing his representations of the neo/post/colonial condition as his leftist conviction grew from vague to firm. By reading closely his short stories “Home Country,” “The Comedy of Tangqian,” “The Sun That Shines On,” and “Zhongxiao Park,” this essay hopes to demonstrate how Chen has been consistently concerned with this issue from 1960 to 2005, because he was fully aware of its being the core obstacle to the reunification of Taiwan and China. Although devoid of an answer in the end, he at foregrounded it as a problem that has to be dealt with by all sides involved. |