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Title |
1930's Taiwan Proletariat Esperanto Movement Connected to Literature and Cultural Aspects: A Study on Chuang Song-lin's Folk Literary Works |
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Author |
Lī, Bí-Chhin |
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Assistant Professor, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University |
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Abstract |
This thesis investigates how Chuang Song-lin（莊松林）, a folk literature writer, participated in the "Proletariat Esperanto Movement" and Esperanto popularization movement of the new religion "Oomoto" during the time from 1931 to 1935, proposing discussion about why intellectual youths would choose Esperanto as the way of cultural practice and its implications behind it while "Tenkō" (changing direction) to the exploration of cultural movement. Chuang Song-lin's attempts and practice in the Esperanto movement, or Marxism with so-called anti-system character and a religious though with cross-domain personality and the pursuit of human peace can be regarded as a symbol of connection and combination from this local intellectual youth. In particular, Chuang Song-lin's first folk literature was the Taiwanese fairy tale "La Malsaĝa Tigro"（戇虎）written in Esperanto and published in "La Verda Insulo"（綠島）. Judging from Chuang Song-lin's practice track, not only was the “Proletariat Esperanto Movement' a starting point for the practice of folk literature in the 1930s, but it could also be seen as a practice process from "local" to "world" made by a local left-wing youth who managed a breakthrough in cultural movement in the darkest time. |
