The Study of Labor and Peasant Writings under Japanese Colonial Rule

• Main Authors: Mei-Chuan Hsieh, 謝美娟
• Other Authors: 朱惠足
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49318264300307617900

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 97 === By the thesis, I have attempt to discuss the peasant and labor novels to see the true life of the most Taiwanese in Japanese colonial rule age. Most of Lai Ho’s novels told the Japanese government established the unfair law in Taiwan, so the Taiwanese often offend against the law and stirred up trouble. Japanese police had enormous authority, they often extorted the Taiwanese’s properties to enrich their wealth. The life of the Taiwanese was filled with anxiety and fear, so the Japanese police injured the Taiwanese rather than safeguarded. The Japanese government’s economic policy was to capture the natural resources and deprive people’s labor in Taiwan, so the Taiwanese were the busier the poorer. Yang kui’s novels told the peasant and labor suffered the“class impression”. In“SUNG BAU FU”, we see that Yang Kui recognized the people had no national boundaries but divided into two parts --- the capital and the proletariat . “MO FAN TSUEN”statement that peasant and labor suffered not only the class impression but colonization impression. This is the reason the peasant and labor in Taiwan was rather miserable than other nations. Yang Shou-Yu’s novels mainly discussed the female peasant and labor in Japanese colonial rule age. Because of the poverty, women had to work to raise their family. They confronted the men’s sexual disturbance at work. The women went outside to work was not for the liberation but for procreation. In the family, female peasant and labor had to face the traditional patriarchy that men had the power to dominate the women. No matter at work or in the family, the women were always proscribed and sacrificed. Thus we see the female peasant and labor had been wholly victimized in Japanese colonial rule age.