From the perspective of "war", "emotion" and "modernity", this thesis runs through the creations of novelists who crossed the sea to Taiwan in the 1950s, and discusses how the mainstream novel creation in the 1950s reflects the relationship between individuals and the times. It also reveals the writer's personal aesthetics, grievances and details of life. The "crossing the sea" in the research topic is essentially an experience that includes elements of action. It is not just the changes in space, memory and emotion between the two places caused by individuals fleeing from "China (Mainland)" and transferring to "Taiwan". It should also include the comparison and extension of the experience of "China (Mainland)" and Taiwan's "island/ocean", and even projection and transformation. The main research work of this paper is the following five points:
1.Exploring the relationship between literati and novels in the 1950s.
2.Interpreting the 1950s Novel Creation through Emotion/Ideology.
3.Reinterpreting 1950s Novels from Multiple Perspectives such as Material History.
4.Exploring Identities and Ethnic Relations of the 1950s.
5.Reassessing the Roots of Modernist Literature in Taiwan
The Taiwan of the 1950s was a space teeming with various strategies, whether in the military deployments or political actions of the Kuomintang government or in various domains like industry, literary circles, academia, and entertainment. 'Strategies' were omnipresent. Writers living within this environment more or less utilized 'tactics' to consume and exploit resources from the larger environment, government, and societal climate to achieve various individual 'objectives,' whether in artistic endeavors or obtaining resources for survival.