Ri yao ri shih san pu zhe, 日曜日式散步者, Le Moulin ( Huang Ya Li, 2015)
It was when Taiwan was in a stable period of cultural assimilation during the past forty years of Japanese colonial rule that the countrys first modern art group Le Moulin Poetry Society arose in the 1930s, with their poetic protest against the colonial powers cultural superiority. The name reflected the groups orientation towards the West while especially strongly influenced by France. Regarding the Surrealists as their absolute role models, Le Moulin poets composed poetry in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in. Le Moulin not only tries to record a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and selfawareness, but also to explore how Asian Modernist writers reinvent Modernism through encountering foreign culture and their contemplation upon identities.
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