Yeh Shih-tao

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Yeh Shih-tao (葉石濤) (1925 – December 11, 2008) was a pioneering Taiwanese writer and historian, who specialized in the literary history of Taiwan and the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people. [1] He was considered a seminal figure in Taiwanese literary criticism.

Yeh Shih-tao was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1925 at a time when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.[1] His early writings were in Japanese, but he switched to Chinese after the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek gained control of Taiwan following the end of World War II.[1] He was arrested by the Chiang Kai-Shek regime in 1951 and imprisoned for three years for allegedly harboring "communist agents."[1]

Author of No Land, No Literature (沒有土地, 哪有文學), The Dilemmas of Taiwan Literature and History of Taiwanese Literature (台灣文學史綱), he chronicled 300 years of the island's literary history and gained renown "for his searing portrayals of ordinary Taiwanese".[2] His best known work was likely The Chronicle of Taiwanese Literature, a compilation of Taiwanese historical literature published in 1987.[1]

Yeh later served as an adviser of the Teacher Human Rights Advocate Committee in Kaohsiung, and was appointed a national policy adviser to the Chen Shui-bian government.[1]

Yeh Shih-tao died of intestinal cancer in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on December 11, 2008, at the age of 83.[1] He had been continuously hospitalized since February 2008.[1] Yeh was survived by his wife and two sons.[1]

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Yeh Shih-tao (葉石濤) (November 1, 1925 – December 11, 2008) was a pioneering Taiwanese writer and historian, who specialized in the literary history of Taiwan and the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people. He was appreciated not just for his searing portrayals of ordinary Taiwanese, but also considered as a seminal figure in Taiwanese literary criticism.

Yeh Shih-tao was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1925 at a time when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. His early writings were in Japanese, but he switched to Chinese after the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek gained control of Taiwan following the end of World War II. He was arrested by the Chiang Kai-Shek regime in 1951 and imprisoned for three years for allegedly harboring "communist agents."

Author of literary criticism, such as No Land, No Literature (沒有土地, 哪有文學), The Dilemmas of Taiwan Literature (台灣文學困境) and the best known The Chronicle of Taiwanese Literature (台灣文學史綱), a compilation of Taiwanese historical literature published in 1987, Yeh chronicled 300 years of the island's literary history and gained renown as the “Constructor of Taiwan Literature Theory”.

Yeh later served as an adviser of the Teacher Human Rights Advocate Committee in Kaohsiung, and was appointed a national policy adviser to the Chen Shui-bian government.

Yeh Shih-tao died of intestinal cancer in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on December 11, 2008, at the age of 84. He had been continuously hospitalized since February 2008. Yeh was survived by his wife and two sons.

In August 11, 2012, in memory of Yeh’s literary contribution to Taiwan, Tainan City Hall found “Yeh Shih-tao Literary Memorial Museum” to display not only Yeh’s great works in his life but also his eternal grand spirit in Taiwan literature.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 "Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao dies". Taiwan News. 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-20. 
  2. ↑ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/11/asia/AS-Taiwan-Obit-Yeh.php

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