A Study Of Classical Literature And The Activities On Lin Ben Yuan’s Family Under The Relations Between FuJian And Taiwan Since 18th Century
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Chuang, Yi-Wen
Abstract
In the historical context of literature and culture between Fujian and Taiwan since the 18th century, Lin Ben Yuan’s Family can be considered a microcosm which reflected the social and cultural situation over that time period and become a vital family because of the international affairs. However, the literary achievement of the Lin Family was often ignored due to its prominent economic and political success. On this ground, my dissertation takes the Lin’s as the major subject and will discuss the development of classical literature of the Lin Family under the perspective of the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan. The second chapter is going to make a discussion on the development and the roles the Lin Family had played in the relationship between Fujian and Taiwan, and emphasize its particularity and significance. Firstly, I will explore how the Lin Family had influenced on the society between FuJian and Taiwan and accumulated the property in the past 240 years. Secondly, I will examine how the Lin Family had accumulated cultural and social capital between Fujian and Taiwan since the 18th century. Thirdly, based on the above, I would like to further elaborate on the development and special meanings of literature of Lin’s Family under the relations of international affairs between Taiwan, China and Japan since the late 19th century. The third chapter focuses on the educational background of the members in the Lin’s. They received multifaceted education in both traditional and new styles from Banqiao, Xiamen, Fuzhou and the others foreign countries. In the fourth chapter, I will pay attention to the classical literature field in Xiamen. After 1895, the members of the Lin’s and some scholars from Taiwan had gathered in Xiamen together and a scholars’ group based on the members of the Lin Family are gradually formed after Shu-Zhuang（菽莊） poets’ club was founded by Er-Jia Lin（林爾嘉） in Kulangsu in 1913. After the 1920s, King-Jin Lin（林景仁） and other members of the Lin’s expanded the influence of Shu-Zhuang poets’ club through the social network between Fujian and Taiwan. The scholars from Taiwan since 1895 and the Qing loyalists from Beijing since 1911 gathered in Shu-Zhuang poets’ club and the influence of Tongguang-Style poetics in Fujian grew with time in Shu-Zhuang. This fact connects the history of Chinese literature of Beijing government with the development of literature in Fujian and Taiwan under Japanese imperialism since the late 19th century. In the fifth chapter, I would like to focus on the classical literature field in Taiwan. After moving to Xiamen, the Lin Family not only went back to Taiwan several times, but also invited many scholars from Fujian which caused more interaction of literature between them. They participated in Ying poets’ club at first, and then established their own four poets’ clubs from 1918 to 1949. Finally, a scholars’ group based on the Lin’s had formed and these poets’ clubs were remarkably prosperous. Xiung-Xiang Lin（林熊祥）made the classical literature field thriving successfully under a competition between Taiwanese scholars and mainlander scholars, and allowed the Lin’s Family to continue their literary development. Drawing on the ‘field’ theory from Bourdieu, this dissertation argues that the Lin Family had accumulated a great amount of ‘symbolic capital’ since the 18th century. The activities of poets’ club were their ‘habitus’ that gathered scholars from Fujian and Taiwan and established a cultural elite community based on the Lin’s. The dissertation provides valuable contribution by adopting new perspectives and theories and emphasizes that there is still positive feature and complicated entanglements in Shu-Zhuang poets’ club which contained scholars from China, Taiwan and Japan.
Subjects
Lin Ben Yuan
Classical Literature
Shu-Zhuang
Er-Jia Lin
King-Jin Lin
Xiung-Xiang Lin
Xiamen
Type
thesis
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