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.

• 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

"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