The Fate under Colonialism and Rebirth of the Islands :A Study of Chia-Hung CHIU's Taiwan's Parorama

• Main Authors: Hsu, Hsing-Ling, 許杏齡
• Other Authors: Ko, Chao-Chin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39587313592678728882

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 客家文化學院客家社會與文化碩士在職專班 === 99 === The thesis discusses the latest Taiwanese saga novel, Taiwan’s Parorama, published in 2004. It was written by a novelist Chia-Hung CHIU, who retired from the local political circle. He described the Taiwanese history which included the frame of martial law spanning from the period of Japan, the Pacific Wars, the 228 incident to the post-war period and the first change of the government party in 2000. This is not only a latest saga novel of Taiwanese history, but also a novel that is considered by the novelist himself to be able to represent the historical viewpoint of his and the Taiwanese people in his generation. It is especially meaningful for a novelist who has long been a party labor for the KMT. The thesis discusses Taiwan’s Parorama with the following two frameworks: the fate under colonialism and the rebirth of the islands. It analyzes how Taiwan’s Parorama , as an epic-like saga novel, lays out the centurial colonial history of Taiwan and the decolonial main construction. The first chapter talks about the motivation, research methods, research frameworks and the literature review. The second chapter introduces Chia-Hung CHIU’s background and explores his ideas and spirits of his literary creation. Next, the third chapter analyzes the colonial destiny, which is reflected from Taiwan’s Parorama. Chapter four discussed how Taiwanese people’s idea of main body is gradually developed under the long-term colonialism and how they create the special power of rebirth of the islands with a personality of tolerance and sincerity. Finally, the fifth chapter concludes that Taiwan’s Parorama is a saga novel describing that Taiwan has experienced two ends of the allochthonous regimes within a century. This idea of this novel establishes on the reflection of the situation of Taiwan’s colonial destiny and the turning point of the rebirth of Taiwan’s main body.