From collaboration to commemoration: Zhang Wojun and the ambiguities of identity for intellectuals from Taiwan
By: Smith, Craig A
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BookPublisher: Modern Asian Studies Description: 58(1), Jan, 2024: p.56-77.Subject(s): Zhang Wojun, Collaboration, Second World War, Taiwanese writer, Educator, Beijing, Identity ambiguities, New-Old Literatures Debate, May Fourth ideas, Japanese literature, Chinese discourse, Greater East Asia Writers’ conferences, Chinese nationalism, Western culture, Historical memory
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Modern Asian StudiesSummary: This article examines Zhang Wojun (1902–1955) and the memory of his ‘collaboration’ with Japan during the Second World War. A Taiwanese-born writer and educator who lived in Beijing for 25 years, his drifting identity was full of ambiguities. Although he was one of the key intellectuals behind Taiwan’s New-Old Literatures Debate and responsible for introducing many May Fourth ideas to Taiwan, he also played an important role in bringing Japanese literature and thought into Chinese discourse during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. During the war, he continued to teach in Beijing and travelled to Japan to attend the Greater East Asia Writers’ conferences. Some of his works from this period call for the Chinese people to support the empire and eradicate Western culture and literature from Asia, but many of his writings also indicate a strong sense of Chinese nationalism.
This article considers the memories of Zhang, his various intellectual contributions, and his oeuvre, arguing that his collaboration must be understood and contextualized within his intellectual landscape through a research methodology that examines continuities and change across decades of his life and work.- Reproduced
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This article examines Zhang Wojun (1902–1955) and the memory of his ‘collaboration’ with Japan during the Second World War. A Taiwanese-born writer and educator who lived in Beijing for 25 years, his drifting identity was full of ambiguities. Although he was one of the key intellectuals behind Taiwan’s New-Old Literatures Debate and responsible for introducing many May Fourth ideas to Taiwan, he also played an important role in bringing Japanese literature and thought into Chinese discourse during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. During the war, he continued to teach in Beijing and travelled to Japan to attend the Greater East Asia Writers’ conferences. Some of his works from this period call for the Chinese people to support the empire and eradicate Western culture and literature from Asia, but many of his writings also indicate a strong sense of Chinese nationalism.
This article considers the memories of Zhang, his various intellectual contributions, and his oeuvre, arguing that his collaboration must be understood and contextualized within his intellectual landscape through a research methodology that examines continuities and change across decades of his life and work.- Reproduced
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/from-collaboration-to-commemoration-zhang-wojun-and-the-ambiguities-of-identity-for-intellectuals-from-taiwan/5F36986B5306CAD8DC885FF849D16E56
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