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張愛玲研究新方向講座系列之三十一 New Directions in Eileen Chang Studies Lecture Series #31
Co-hosted by School of Chinese and Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Co-sponsored by Louis Cha Fund for Chinese studies & East/West studies in the Faculty
& Center for the Study of Globalization and Culture (CSGC) 

現代主義、通俗文藝與左翼：張愛玲與戰後台灣文學的交織
Modernism, Popular Literature, and the Left: The Intersection of Eileen Chang and Postwar Taiwanese Literature

分享嘉賓 Speaker:

Prof. LIN Pei-yin 林姵吟 教授

(School of Chinese, HKU)

主持人 Moderator:

Prof. Nicole HUANG 黃心村 教授

(Department of Comparative Literature, HKU)

日期時間 Date & Time: September 29, 2026 (Tue) 16:30-18:00pm (HKT)

語言 Language: Mandarin 國語/普通話

地點 Venue: CRT-4.36, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

講座模式 Delivery Mode: Face-to-face & Online (via Zoom)

報名 Registration:

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摘要 Abstract:

1999年，張愛玲的《半生緣》入選台灣《聯合報》副刊和文建會合辦的「台灣文學經典三十」名單，引發了張是否可被視為台灣作家的討論。目前台灣學界多將張視為「祖師奶奶」，探討台灣言情女作家對其小說風格上的承繼。本講採文學社會學視角，考察張愛玲與台灣文學具怎樣的淵源，使其被納入台灣文學範疇。首先追溯1957年夏志清於其兄夏濟安主編的《文學雜誌》上的兩篇評論，將張引入台灣背後的美援文學機制，接著探討1966年經宋淇引薦，已赴美的張愛玲的《怨女》開始於《皇冠》雜誌連載，奠定了張在台灣作為皇冠「招牌」與通俗作家的崛起。最後論及唐文標在1976年專書《張愛玲雜碎》流露的左翼傾向及其編纂張氏早期佚文的努力。結語指出張愛玲在戰後台灣文壇包括現代主義、通俗文藝，與左翼文學的多重交織，而這些面向恰反映出戰後台灣文學的三大重要板塊。

In 1999, Eileen Chang’ novel Half a Lifelong Romance was selected for the“30 Classics of Taiwanese Literature” list, jointly organized by the literary supplement of Taiwan’s United Daily News and the Council for Cultural Affairs. This sparked a debate over whether Chang could be considered a Taiwanese writer. Currently, Taiwanese academia tends to regard Chang as a pioneering figure, exploring how Taiwanese female romance novelists have inherited her stylistic legacy. This talk adopts a sociological perspective on literature to explore the connection between Eileen Chang and Taiwanese literature that led to her inclusion in the realm of Taiwanese literature. It begins by tracing C. T. Hsia’s two 1957 essays on Chang in Literary Magazine, edited by his brother T. A. Hsia, which elucidates the U.S. aid-funded literary mechanism that brought Chang’s work to Taiwan. The discussion then turns to 1966, when, through Stephen Soong’s recommendation, Chang—who had already relocated to the United States—began serializing “The Rouge of the North” in Crown magazine, cementing her rise in Taiwan as Crown’s “flagship” author and a writer of popular fiction. Finally, it investigates the leftist tendencies underpinning Tang Wenbiao’s 1976 monograph Eileen Chang Chop Suey and his efforts to compile Chang’s lost early writings. The conclusion points out that Chang’s work was intricately interwoven with modernism, popular literature, and leftism in the postwar Taiwanese literary scene, and that these facets precisely reflect the three important strands of postwar Taiwanese literature.

講者簡介 About the Speaker:

林姵吟  香港大學中文學院副教授，主要講授現代中國文學與文化課程。加入港大前，她曾任教於新加坡國立大學，劍橋大學，以及倫敦大學亞非學院。她於2015至2016年擔任哈佛燕京學者，2020年擔任萊頓大學台灣研究講座教授，並於2026年夏季擔任慕尼黑大學訪問學者。她著有Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017) 及《台灣文學中的性別與族裔：從日治到當代》（2021），並合編有六部專書，最新一本為An Unlikely Trajectory: Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan（2026）。

LIN Pei-yin is currently Associate Professor in the School of Chinese, HKU, where she teaches courses on modern Chinese literature and culture. Prior to HKU, she has taught at the National University of Singapore, University of Cambridge, and SOAS. She was a Harvard Yenching Visiting Scholar in 2015-2016, Chair of Taiwan Studies in Leiden University in 2020, and a visiting scholar at the University of Munich in the summer of 2026. She has authored two monographs, Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature (2017) and Gender and Ethnicity in Taiwanese Literature: Japanese Colonial Era to Present Day (2021) and co-edited six books, with An Unlikely Trajectory: Literary and Cultural Leftism in Taiwan (2026) being the most recent one. 

Notice:

1)  The seminar will be conducted primarily in a face-to-face mode; Those who cannot attend the seminar in-person could apply for online participation (via Zoom);

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