從《現代》作家到《自由中國》政論家─戴杜衡（1907─1964）研究

Abstract

This thesis is a research on the writer, Tai Tu-Han, dividing his life and career into two phases.The first phase is in the pure-arts-and-literature era in China, during the time when Tai was a literature reviewer, a novelist and a translator. Liu Na-Ou, Shi Zhe-Cun, and Dai Wang-Shu were his close friends in the field of literature and had co-founded arts and literature periodicals, like Yingluo, Wenxue Gongchang, Wugui Lieche, and Xinwenyi.Positioning himself as one of the ‘third category people’, Tai had debated with the leftist writers led by Lu Xun in Xiandai magazine over whether the orientation of writers should be leftists, rightists or neither both of the two categories.The second phase is after the retreat to Taiwan with Kuomingtang Government, when he was serving as the editorial writer of the party’s press, Central Daily News, and of Taiwan Shin Sheng Daily News. Simultaneously, he was also serving as an editor for a periodical directed by Lei Chen—Free China Journal. From a writer to a political commentator, undergoing a shift between literature and politics, the two phases of career contrasts greatly as if Tai were two different people. The thesis is composed of 5 chapters. Apart from chapter 1 and 5, the analysis is based on Tai Tu-Han’s works of literature and political essays. Moreover, it sorts out the flow of evidence on how he transformed from a writer to a commentator, and furthermore letting us probe into his mindset of pursuing democracy in politics and his yearning for liberty. Within the research and composition of this thesis, the author would like to wipe the dust-laden history, rewind the story of Tai Tu-Han back to the 1930’s, mark out the importance and variation of the Neo-sensualism in Shanghai Modernism, and to return Tai himself back to the liberalistic editorials of Free China Journal during the post-war period, redefining the position of this commentator who came to Taiwan.