Wu Zhuoliu

Wu Chuo-liu (吳濁流) (1900–1976) was an influential Taiwanese journalist and novelist. His experiences during the colonial period, including fifteen months (January 1941-March 1942) spent in China, served as an inspiration for his most famous work, Orphan of Asia, a semi-autobiographical account of the experiences of a fictional protagonist—Hu Taiming—during the course of the colonial period. This work, which highlighted the ambiguity and tension inherent in being Taiwanese, has since become a key text in the contentious subject of Taiwanese identity. He is also known for his autobiography 無花果, translated by Duncan Hunter as The Fig Tree.

Bibliography

• Wu, Zhuoliu (2008). Orphan of Asia. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231137263.
• Wu, Zhuoliu (2002). The Fig Tree: Memoirs of a Taiwanese Patriot. Bloomington: AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781403321503.

References

• Leo Ching. Becoming Japanese: Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. ISBN 0-520-22551-1
• David Der-wei Wang and Carlos Rojas, editors. Writing Taiwan. ISBN 0-8223-3851-3

External links

• WU ZHUOLIU ARCHIVE by Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences at National Chung Hsin University, Taiwan