| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 台灣文學研究所 === 99 === In May 1927, Hsien-tang Lin and his second son Yu-long started their journey to cross the world from Jilong, and met his firstborn son Pan-long in France. They kept traveling in Europe and the United State. It took them one year to complete the journey from the first stop Jilong to the last stop Yokohama, Japan in May 1928. Hsien-tang Lin and his sons had been traveling to four continents and eleven countries. Hsien-tang recorded what he had seen and how he had felt on his long journey, and reported them in the newspaper named “Taiwan Ming-Bao”, which provided Taiwanese people with the knowledge of modern western world and of the local traveling industries.
This study , firstly, discussed the feelings and responses of Hsien-tang Lin when he was in Western modern surroundings. Generally speaking, he was astonished and admired western modern buildings. However, he also discovered those problems induced by industrial development. Secondly, he analyzed the differences between the east and the west. Distinguished characteristics such as being law-abiding, politeness, and of westerners were highly appreciated by Hsien-tang Lin.
After returned to Taiwan, he became conscious that the western progress was not only seen in powerful weapons, but also revealed their characteristics of self-government and self-sacrifice, which Taiwanese needed to learn. Therefore, he kept on petitioning for installing parliament, promoted the realization of Taiwanese local self-government and organized "Local Self-governed Union of Taiwan", furthermore, he and his son Pan-long established "Yi-hsin Organization" in order to develop self-governance ability of Taiwanese and promote their concepts . He conceived that culture is the spirit of a ethnic so that he insisted on the importance of reserving Chinese culture and put lots of effort into it.
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