Fiction
The Romance before Sunrise: A sketch of Taiwan Literature during the Period of Japanese Rule
by Hsiang Yin Lai
The Romance before Sunrise: A sketch of Taiwan Literature during the Period of Japanese Rule is based on Ang Lau’s novel Love Stories Before Sunrise. This book pays a tribute to its predecessor on the foreign land, and can also be compared to the modern novels in Taiwan. From exploring writing styles in the 1920s to showcasing the works in the 1940s, Taiwanese novelists had expressed their passion fully. No matter how difficult the circumstances were, writers still embraced their passion in the darkness. Sadly, no one appreciated their hard work so it just evaporated like the dew after dawn. The author carefully picked fourteen Taiwanese novelists in the Japanese colonial period, revealing once more their dream of writing, the civilization and the oppressive reality in the beginning of the last century.
