The Tragic Origins of Hong Kong and Taiwan Literature in the 1950s and 1960s

Abstract

By the 1950s and 1960s, literary works from the regions of Hong Kong and Taiwan began to broadly exhibit characteristics of sadness and melancholy. Moving beyond the constraints of previous research, which primarily focused on the biographical analysis of individual writers, this paper has expanded the investigation’s scope. This includes a comprehensive analysis of social environment, personal emotions, writing techniques, literary assertions, and gender consciousness. It concludes that the tragic essence of Hong Kong and Taiwan’s literary works is a complex and multifaceted, driven by multiple factors that cannot be singly examined. This discovery of the multifaceted core of tragedy in Hong Kong and Taiwanese literature introduces new methodologies for analyzing tragic literary works. It fills the gap in current research regarding the analysis of causes from multiple perspectives, providing a more diverse and compelling argument for the origins of tragedy in Hong Kong and Taiwanese literature. Offering different perspectives for studying the uniqueness of Hong Kong and Taiwanese literature, this work adds new views and a comprehensive research direction for the causes behind tragic works, thus broadening the scope for future research.