Yang Kui
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Yang Kui 楊逵 was a prominent writer in Taiwan
's Japanese colonial period. Raised in Japanese-language schools, he went to the Japanese mainland, where he experienced both persecution and acceptance, especially by Japanese communists. Under these influences he became a proletarian novelist. After the war, he was imprisoned by the Kuomintang
government from 1949 to 1961. After being released from prison, he had to learn the Chinese language from his granddaughter, as Japanese had been the common language of Taiwan until the time of his imprisonment.
His most famous work is The Newspaper Man, first written in Japanese as『新聞配達夫』(Shimbun Haitatsu Fu) and re-written in Chinese by Yang after his imprisonment, as 送報夫. Written in Japanese
, it is the story of a young Taiwanese student struggling to make money as a newspaper delivery boy.
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
's Japanese colonial period. Raised in Japanese-language schools, he went to the Japanese mainland, where he experienced both persecution and acceptance, especially by Japanese communists. Under these influences he became a proletarian novelist. After the war, he was imprisoned by the Kuomintang
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...
government from 1949 to 1961. After being released from prison, he had to learn the Chinese language from his granddaughter, as Japanese had been the common language of Taiwan until the time of his imprisonment.
His most famous work is The Newspaper Man, first written in Japanese as『新聞配達夫』(Shimbun Haitatsu Fu) and re-written in Chinese by Yang after his imprisonment, as 送報夫. Written in Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, it is the story of a young Taiwanese student struggling to make money as a newspaper delivery boy.