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Title |
Literary Review and Modern Literature under the U.S. Aid Literary Institution |
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Author |
Wang, Mei-Hsiang |
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PhD. Candidate, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University |
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Abstract |
In the discourse of existing history of Taiwan Literature, U.S. Power intervened the Taiwan literary scene by means of patronage, which meant that USIS of Taipei sponsored the publication of literary magazines－Literary Review and Modern Literature. However, the relationship between USIS of Taipei and these two publications never be clarified. By means of using the files of National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which was the first application for data release in academic unit, this paper tried to explain that these two publications played the role of literary tools for propaganda toward the Southeast Asia under the U.S. literary institution except the stereotypes of the academic journal and Modernist Literature. Literary Review was one of Chinese-Language Program and an unattributed monthly journal of Taipei USIS; Modern Literature was also supported and broadcast by this unit. Through the research, the paper re-examined and revised the position of Literary Review, and placed these two publications in the propaganda structure of postwar cultural Cold War. It argues that the so-called “pure” literary journals in the face of “depolitical” or ” ultra-utilitarian” conduct anti-communist political propaganda toward the Chinese intellectuals in Southeast Asia under the operation of U.S. Aid literary institution. |
