行腳滿洲．發現台灣：以1930年謝春木〈新興中國見聞記〉為討論中心

Abstract

Traveling is a process of cross-cultural contact, and an inner experience of cultural differences. This paper addresses Taiwanese intellectuals' opinions and commentaries on China, focusing on ＂Travels of Emerging China＂, written by Taiwanese intellectual Hsieh Chun-mu, who studied in Tokyo and joined Taiwan's social movements during the Japanese colonial period. Hsieh Chun-mu recorded his travel experiences in 1929. The main reason for his travel was to explore the influence of Japanese colonial force on China's political, economic, and public affairs. During the period of Japanese colonization, Taiwanese intellectuals lived in a multispatial and temporal context, which included colonial society, modern concepts of world civilization, and imperial hegemony. Hsieh Chun-mu's travel records a combination of the perspectives of Japan, China, and Taiwan, not only reflect the situation in China at the time but also provide the reader with an idea of the circumstances in Taiwan. The setting of ＂Travels of Emerging China＂ includes Japan, East China, and Northeast China (Manchuria). This paper focuses on Manchuria and the other two settings as references, to analyze Hsieh Chun-mu's intercultural perspective, point of view about Taiwan's social movements and structure of affect. This paper explores the colonizer's personal identification, Chinese imagination, and social context of cultural interaction through a close study on Hsieh Chun-mu's travel writing on China under Japanese rule.