Author ｜
Lin Yi-heng
Abstract ｜
“Revolution” is a prevailing concept in the twentieth century in Eastern Asia. Man of high aspiration affected by the concept of “Revolution” in late Qing China and Japan after the Meiji Restoration, and Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period was no exception. Therefore, intellectuals in Taiwan began to create their ideal “revolution”. Among them, Li Yi-Tao, reporter from Taiwan Daily News, was the representative of those having in-depth thought of “revolution”. This paper starts with the relationship among Li Yi-Tao, Chen Shao-Bai and Zhang Tai-Yan, and discovers the inner source of Li’s concept of “revolution”. Besides, it could display the interaction among the intellectuals in Late Qing China and Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Through Li’s articles and fictions, we find that Li admired “revolution” and opposed Qing dynasty as an autocracy. However, Li’s concept of “revolution” was filled with paradox not only because of his political identification but also the emerging hostility toward Qing dynasty for abandoning Taiwan after First Sino-Japanese War.
keywords ｜
Li Yi-Tao, revolution, colonization, Taiwan, autocracy