Taiwanese literature
Taiwanese literature refers to the literature written by Taiwanese in any language ever used in Taiwan, including Japanese, Taiwanese Han and Austronesian languages.
Novels, short stories, and poetry
Taiwan has a very active literary scene, with a large number of writers of novels and short stories enjoying a wide readership, many of them for many decades running. A short selection of prominent writers and poets includes:- Wang K'ai-yün
- Wu Zhuoliu
- Bo Yang
- Yao Yi-Wei
- Chen Min-hwa
- Huang Chun-ming
- Pai Hsien-yung
- Chen Ruoxi
- Wang Wen-hsing
- Yang Mu
- San Mao
- Lung Ying-tai
- Qiu Fengjia
- Loa Ho
- John Ching Hsiung Wu
- Chou Meng-tieh
- William Marr
- Li Kuei-Hsien
- Wai-lim Yip
- Xi Murong
- Wu He
- Lin Yang-min
- Luo Yijun
- Hou Wen-yong
- Li Bi-chhin
Similarly, there is a large poetry community in Taiwan, and there have been several anthologies of Taiwanese poetry in English translation. The , edited by Taiwanese poets, targets the millennials poets who created modern poetry in Taiwan. It includes 52 poets such as Liao Chi-Yu,, Hsu Pei-Fen, and.
Two areas of cross-pollination between literature and other arts in Taiwan include modern dance and filmmaking.
The 1990s saw the rise of a nativist Taiwan literature movement.
More recently, Taiwan literature has also been included in Sinophone literature and world literature.
Literature relating to politics
With the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, books from the PRC were not often published in Taiwan and books from Taiwan were not often published in the PRC. In 1986, the first novel, Three Kings, written by a mainland Chinese writer, Ah Cheng, was openly published as such in Taiwan.Some books from China still found their way into Taiwan before 1986 by different ways. As pirate editions, under both a different title and a pseudonym for the author, under a different title, but with the author's name unchanged, under a pseudonym but with the title unchanged, or altered by changes in the text itself.