"Postloyalist Writing" by David Der-wei Wang casts a new light on the studies of Taiwan literature with regards to national imagination and identity politics. Taking cue from Wang's critical discussion, this essay further develops two theoretical issues that concern: first, a nuanced way of critical analysis that the prefix "post" highlights; and second, the différance of loyalist and related identity politics. The essay first provides a brief discussion of the meanings of "tradition" in modern and premodern times while tracing the semantic variation of the term "loyalist" throughout Chinese history. In the end, the essay elucidates the theoretical vision and capacity of the postloyal discourse