TAIWAN LITERATURE

English Translation Series, No. 5

Editors

Kuo-ch'ing Tu and Robert Backus

Contributors

鄭清文 Cheng Ch'ing-wen

黃春明 Huang Ch'un-ming

林宜澐 Lin I-yun

洪祖瓊 Hung Tsu-ch'iung

陳列 Ch'en Lieh

黃克全 Huang K'o-ch'uan

鍾順文 Chung Shun-wen

海瑩 Hai Ying

張國治 Chang Kuo-chih

許悔之 Hsü Hui-chih

劉克襄 Liu K'o-hsiang

李瑞騰 Li Rui-t'eng

陳萬益 Ch'en Wan-i

Translators

Robert Backus	Howard Goldblatt
Sue Wiles	Linda G. Wang
Robert Smitheram	James A. Honeychyck
Andrew C. Dawrant	Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
Kuo-ch'ing Tu

卷頭語 ﹕文學與社會關懷………………………………………vii

杜國清

Foreword:Literature and Social Concerns ……………………xi

K. C. Tu

Critiques

The Social Significance and Artistic Quality of Literary Works (文學作品的社會性與藝術性) ……………………………3

Cheng Ch'ing-wen 鄭清文
Translated by Robert Backus
University of California at Santa Barbara

Fiction

Dead Again? (死去活來)………………………………………9

Huang Ch'un-ming 黃春明
Translated by Howard Goldblatt
University of Colorado at Boulder

Your Live Show, Opus No.1 (你的現場作品 No.1) …………15

Lin I-yun 林宜澐
Translated by Sue Wiles
University of Sydney

Beauty (美麗)……………………………………………………27

Hung Tsu-ch'iung 洪祖瓊
Translated by Linda G. Wang
University of California at Berkely

Essays

Compartiots (同胞) ……………………………………………53

Ch'en Lieh 陳列
Translated by Robert Smitheram
Middlebury College

Old Mainlander, for You I Write (老芋仔，我為你寫下) ………61

Huang K’o-ch'uan 黃克全
Translated by Andrew C. Dawrant
Chinese Conference Interpreter & Translator

Poetry

Fairy Companions Bathed in Fire—In Memory of Teacher Lin Ching-chuan (浴火仙侶) ............................69

Chung Shun-wen 鍾順文

Outsized Feet (一雙超大的腳)..........................71

Hai Ying 海瑩

Thus Spoke a Grain of Rice (一顆米如是說).............73

Chang Kuo-chih 張國治

Maigre Fare Aung San Suu Kyi on Finishing Her Term in Prison (齋飯)..................................................75

Hsu hui-chih 許悔之

Burial of Flowers (葬花)........................77

Liu K’o-hsiang 劉克襄

Translated by
K. C. Tu and Robert Backus
University of California, Santa Barbara

Studies

Comfort yhe Old?: On the Condition of the Aged in Huang Ch’un-ming’s Fiction (老者安之？—黃春明小說中的老人處境).............................................81

Li Rui-t’eng 李瑞騰
Translated by Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
University of Colorado at Boulder

Dandelions Adrift in the Wind: Some Thoughts about Veterans in the Prose of Taiwan (隨風飄零的蒲公英—台灣散文的老兵思維)...............................................103

Ch'en Wan-I 陳萬益
Translated by James A. Honeychuck
Defense Language Institute, Monterey, California

Taiwan Literature:
English Translation Series, No. 5
ISSN 1097-5845

The publishers of this journal gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Publication of the Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series was made possible through the support, here gratefully acknowledged, of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, as well as the College of Letters and Science and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dominic Clark in the Asian Studies Program, UCSB, oversaw the design and wordprocessing of the volume.

TAIWAN LITERATURE

English Translation Series, No. 5

Contributors

Contents

Fiction