踏溯台南

踏溯台南

文學院 通識教育課程

Badlands and the Mountain City

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Yang-Kui Literature Memorial Hall

   Yang-Kui was a prominent writer in Taiwan. His most famous work is The Newspaper Man and The Indomitable Rose. Yang-Kui was born in Xin-Hua in 1906. He was the first Taiwanese writer to participate in central literary activities in Japan. He participated in the labor movement, political movement, and peasant movement many times when he was in school. He inspires Taiwanese people to take their rights. Not only was he arrested by the government for supporting the peasant movement in Japan, but he was also arrested and imprisoned by the government for publishing the "Declaration of Peace" after the war. He is one of the pioneers of social movements in Taiwan.

   In 2001, the Xin-Hua Town Office and local cultural workers initiated the Yang-Kui Literature Memorial Hall's establishment and received subsidies from the Cultural Construction Association. The idle land administration office was planned as the "Yang-Kui Literature Memorial Hall," displaying Yang-Kui's cultural relics, historical materials, and images. The first floor of Building A planned to be the Yang-Kui exhibition area. The second floor is the Yang-Kui exhibition area of literature, the first floor of Building B is the literary social center; the second floor is the community exhibition hall. The C building is the impressive exhibition hall of Ou-Wei film memorial hall; Organized several arts and cultural activities to promote Yang-Kui's "The Indomitable Rose" spirit.

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