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.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on RomanizationIntroduction Part I. The Colonial Era1.Literary leftism in colonial Taiwan: The Cases of Lai He, Yang Kui and Lü Heruo Pei-yin Lin2. Butterflies! The Revolutionary Muses: Wang Baiyuan's Poetry Translation in Shanghai, 1936-1946Liu Liu Shu-chin, translated by Pei-yin Lin, P-hsi Chen, and Blake Brownrigg3. Rereading Jiang Weishui's Revolutionary Politics and Contribution to Anti-Imperialism Nick T. C. LuPart 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 Huang, translated by Yi-hung Liu5. Identities, Genealogy, and Political Actions of Left-Wing Female Political Victims of the White Terror in the 1950s Li Shu-Cchun Li, translated by Alec Martin6. Revelation and Evocation: On Su Beng's 400-Year History of the Taiwanese People as National History Rwei-ren WuPart III. The 1970s and 1980s7. The Dialectics of Revolution and Betrayal: Chen Yingzhen's Socialist Christianity in "The Story of Judas Iscariot" Po-hsi Chen8. Guo Songfen, "Moon Seal", and the Rift in Mid-Twentieth Century Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang9. A Critical Topography of Work: Baigongtu's Alternative Media Activism in 1980s Taiwan Lawrence Z.i Qiao YangPart IV. The Post-Martial Law Era 10. Remembering Taiwanese Socialism: Xie Xuehong in Cross-Strait Historical Memory Mark McConaghy11. De-localizing Sinophone, or the Literature of Left-Wing South: Ng Kim-chew's Stories of Malayan Communists Ling Kang12. The "Postcolonial Left" and "Ethnicity-oriented Class Narrative" in Taiwan's Literary Historiography Lin Yun-hung Lin, translated by Pei-yin LinGlossaryList of ContributorsIndex

"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