Chair professor Chen, Fang-ming, associate professors Wu, Pei-chen and Choi, Mao-soon, assistant professor Chi, Ta-wei, Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature; and professors from other universities like Hao, Yu-xiang, Wang, Wan-jung, Liu, Zheng-zhong, Chiu, Ya-fang, etc., were invited to issue their essays in the symposium.

Professor Chen, the host of the team, stated that although those essays looked like separated with one another, the connections, in fact, existed among them via the close observation. And that was the pivot of the humane spirit.

People, inevitably, couldn’t help but admit that there were isolated boundaries among those literatures in the different realms; nonetheless, it’s better to say that there was not solely particularity but also universality among the 7 essays. The former lied in the interpretation from the different angles of literature and art, while the latter consisted in the integration of literature and culture around the eastern Asia under framework from the macroscopic view.

Associate professor Wang, Wan-jung, department of drama creation and application, National University of Tainan, first read her essay. By theater movements of community she discussed about the action of civilian art of Taiwan and indicated that the capitalistic logic which revolted against and overthrew the modernity.

Besides, professor Hao, Yu-xiang, department of languages and creative writing, National Taipei University of Education, delicately depicted the features of the left-wing novels in Shanghai in the 1920’s by the concept of heterotopias.

Associate professor Wu, Pei-chen combined the feminist magazine “the voice of female” with Shanghai that then under control of Japan. She indicated that the process of the Shanghai literary circles transferred from fighting against Japan to the everyday and common humanity and she also magnified the existence of the gender and personal problems.

Associate professor Liu, Zheng-zhong, department of Chinese literature, National Tsing Hua University, makes a study of the lyric tradition of Taiwan. From his viewpoints, it’s possible to find out the characteristics of Taiwan’s lyric tradition. For example, the relation of Chen, Shi-xiang and Yang Mu were the valuable clues. It’s because their relation may be called the overlap of the modern lyric not just in poetry and novels but in prose and discourses. Later, associate professor Choi, Mao-soon deliberated on the way of cultural exchange by integrating the publication issued during the early stage after the anti-Japanese war. Furthermore, she pointed out that the traits of Taiwan’s cultural restoration consisted in the necessity of contacting with China.

In the end of the conference professor Chen said that it’s staying with these young scholars that triggered so many innovative thoughts that he had never imagined. Moreover, he looked forward to this kind of expansive and unlimited discussion that made the scholars be capable of wrestling with the issues that were still not been discovered concerning literature and art.