Wu Zhuoliu

The Fig Tree
edition cathay, Band 1
1994; 155 S.; Sprache: Englisch
ISSN 0946-2325
ISBN 978-3-928861-18-2

Looking back over his life from the perspective of the 1947 massacres, the Taiwanese writer and Journalist Wu Zhuoliu describes his rural childhood in the Japanese colony of Taiwan, his growing political consciousness as a teacher in the Japanese school system and his growing awareness that China - the idealised "motherland" - was no more his home than the Japanese empjre. The Fig Tree, whjch concludes with an impIicit plea for an independen Taiwan, is both a personal record of the colonial experience in a non-Western colony and a reluctant critique of the political ineptitude of the Chinese Nationalist (KMT) government in which the Taiwanese had placed so much hope.

Wu Zhuoliu (1900-1976) ist posthum zu einer der wichtigsten Symbolfiguren Im Prozeß der taiwanesischen Identitätstfindung geworden, einer kulturell-politischen Strömung, die seit dem Ende der 80er Jahre auf Taiwan eine immer größere Unterstützung in der Bevölkerung findet.