This thesis mainly discusses the historical context of Taiwan Wu-Xia manga and the cultural meanings represented by the martial arts theme stories in the development of Taiwanese comics. Macroscopically, the martial arts story is a symbol of Chinese culture in the Chinese world. The martial arts story often overlaps with the context of various Chinese national cultural codes, and gradually forms a special text with national imagination. Among the publication types of martial arts stories, the "martial arts novels" that appeared in the 1930s and the "martial arts movies" popular in Taiwan in the 1960s, but the popularity of martial arts stories have also become known. The theme of Taiwan comics.
"Wu Xia manga" is a special and important existence in the history of Taiwanese manga. The first is that the development of Taiwanese manga began from the Japanese rule. When Taiwan was separated from Japanese colonial rule, the manga text continued to be popular through the children''s magazine model. The publication of the Taiwan manga text after 1945 reflects that the people of Taiwan Province have generally extended the connotation of popular culture during the Japanese occupation. In addition to being influenced by martial arts novels, the appearance of "Wu-xai" in manga was also a projection and imagination of the "Chinese nation" by Taiwanese comic creators of the province. Under the party-state policy of "Fighting Art" in the 1950s, when the content of literary and artistic works moved toward a single "anti-communist" ideology, the martial arts novels with Chinese image appeared, bringing the contemporary comics of the province to create a temporary retreat. Get rid of the shackles of satirical comics and then write into the creation of story manga.
When the martial arts story is a kind of appealing text of national emotions, the popularity of martial arts comics means that the people of this province not only recognize that they are Taiwanese, but also a member of the Chinese nation, and the performance of creating martial arts texts and reading martial arts texts represents Taiwanese people, regardless of their own provinces and other provinces, have gradually become more consistent in their identity.