This book provides a refreshing and comprehensive analysis on colonial Taiwanese literature. It accentuates its thematic and stylistic richness, challenges the reductive “collaboration-resistance” binary, and calls for a multifaceted literary commonwealth.

Pei-yin Lin, Ph.D. (2001), University of London, is Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese, HKU. She has published on modern Chinese/Taiwanese literature, including Print, Profit, and Perception: Ideas, Information and Knowledge in Chinese Societies, 1895-1949 (co-edited, Brill, 2014).