英文摘要 |
In recent years, some scholars have attempted to view Sinophone "non-left writings" produced in the Malaysian literary field before the 1970s as "Republican literature" [Minguo wenxue], a term related to the pre-1949 Republican period of Nationalist China. Specifically, the term refers to the works published in Chao Foon, a literary magazine founded in 1955 in Singapore, before and around the 1970s. However, since Malaya gained her independence from the British colonial rule in 1957, and local residents, qualified immigrants included, were granted Malayan citizenship, the term "Republican literature" becomes an obvious misnomer. Despite its inaccurate designation, such a label helps motivate the exploration of literary relations between the two Sinophone systems of Malaysian and Taiwanese Literature. Examining the works by Taiwanese writers published in Chao Foon, this paper points out that, on the one hand, the presence of these texts in the magazine reinforces the local Modernist literary repertoire. On the other hand, these texts could be regarded as the participation and diffusion of Taiwanese writers in the Modernist movement of Southeast Asian Sinophone sphere especially in the 1960s, within the Cold War framework. Moreover, with this cultural capital from Taiwan at hand, Huang Ya, the editor of Chao Foon from 1961-1969, together with Bai Yao the poet-editor, were able to launch the first wave of Modernist movement in the history of Sinophone Malaysian literature. |