dc.description.abstract | The national level writer, Chi Chun(1917 ~ 2006), stayed in USA for 20 years, finally returned Taiwan to settle down in June, 2004. While the arts and cultural community wanted to invite her for welcoming party, the seminars and so on, Chi Chun dead in June, 2006.
After changing family life, war and no fixed place to live, Chi Chun still insist on the genuine, reality, purity, and beauty of literature faith. She wrote a lot of gentle and sincere articles comforting the will of the people. Although she traveled to USA again in her twilight years, Chi Chun still created many articles and often communicated with literature companions by writing articles on newspaper. Her willpower and spirit to future generations of writers set the best example.
To commemorate Chi Chun, National Museum of Taiwanese Literature, National Central University「Research Section for Chi-Chun」and her husband had discussed many times and decided to gather her correspondence to compile and print as the book. August, 2007 "Chi Chun Correspondence Collection" had be published smoothly. This paper takes "Chi Chun Correspondence Collection" as the main research scope.
"Chi Chun Correspondence Collection" mainly collects the correspondence which Chi Chun wrote after 1980 she went to America. The correspondence had be send to people including the publisher, the media editors, literature companions , the reader and so on and provided direct and the powerful information about the life of Chi Chun in her twilight years, friends, thoughts, creation and so on. It was full of the meaning of Literature and study of historical data.
Chi Chun lived in foreign place during her twilight years, the companions could hardly meet with her. Therefore, the correspondence becomes the communication method with the external world. She massively wrote letters to friends all over the world to tell about her lonely life and the genuine, reality, purity, and beauty of literature faith. Because the characteristic of the primitive correspondence are sincereness and not deceptiveness, it may appear the author real natural disposition. Therefore by the reference, addendum, analysis and summary of the correspondence and prose, we can understand Chi Chun about the life of Chi Chun in her twilight years and the genuine, reality, purity, and beauty of literature faith. | en_US |