| dc.description.abstract | With her forty-year writing process, which comprises both her early reconsideration for eastern and western cultures and now the concern for immigrants, post colonialism and immigration, Sue-Ching Shin is indeed an advanced writer. This research paper tries to show how she views Hong Kong and Taiwan through the six novels which she has written recently.
Chapter One introduces the research motivation, research purpose, the works and research of Sue-Ching Shin, research range, research method, and research structural arrangement.
Chapter Two describes the one-hundred-year Hong Kong legend, which see through the books, “Victoria Club” and “The Trilogy of Hong Kong” to infer that the colonists in the colonial areas use racial, cultural and religious discriminations to imagine themselves and to mold and cultivate the aborigines. This chapter also analyzes the characters in the books in order to classify the different role-playing between the colonists and the aborigines. The last part in this chapter is to discuss the artistic features of the novel.
Chapter Three depicts Taiwan in the late 20th. century. This chapter discuss her writing focuses in the book, “Tipsy”: the colonists always try to instill their culture to the aborigines, but the aborigines often copy their way and manipulate the way better; the book rebuilds the historical memories of Taiwan with the life history of people from different races and social statuses, and with the related local construction and architectural history; the media is usually allied with commercial interests and tries to manipulate the fashion taste. Still another focus is to observe the late 20th. century Taiwan society with the five views of food, the loss of smell and sensation spirits, brand-worship, imitation of the architectural space, and the political black box. The last part of the chapter is to analyze her descriptive usage.
Chapter Four entitles “Lukang, Prosperity, Dream.” This chapter concludes her writing focuses in the book, “Passing through Luo Jin,” which are historical reality v. fiction, prosperity v. decay, delicacy v. vulgarity, and center v. border. This chapter also discusses the Lukang immigrants and the city development from the Ching dynasty to show that the Lukang society at this period is a peaceful one. The last part of the chapter is to discuss the book’s artistic features.
Chapter Five concludes the viewpoints in the former chapters and points out how Sue-Ching Shin views Hong Kong and Taiwan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This chapter also shows her care for literature. | en_US |