On Zhong Zhao-zheng’s Novel Creation

Zhong Zhao-zheng is the pioneer of Taiwan epic construct, initiator of the Hakka dialect writing after the retrocession, one of the earliest writers who were engaged in the aboriginal writing and who had the most abundant related writings, and native-represented writer.Born in the underclass, Zhong Zhao-zheng upheld the underclass identity and adhered to the Hakka writing, women writing and the aboriginal writing. After the retrocession, he was the first person to advocate Hakka dialect writing. What he did in practice was purifying and refining words. He looked at the Hakka customs from the aesthetic point of view, combining organically the depiction of the custom and the character and the plots in praise of their "stiff neck" spirit.Zhong Zhao-zheng has the potential of "androgyny", making a historic contribution for the construction of female consciousness in Taiwan literature. The female consciousness in his writing was in an obscured state in the1950s, began to sprout in the1960s, and got widely known and mutated in the1980s.Zhong Zhao-zheng was highly identified with the aboriginal people. In the automatic adjustment by the complex internal mental mechanisms, Zhong Zhao-zheng converted his earliest aboriginal perceptual experience into his romantic imagination and came up with a series of wild and heroic aboriginal female images.Zhong Zhao-zheng was bewitched by the Japanese culture in his early years, turning the inferiority of his own culture into an aesthetic taste and love legends. But later, Japanese and Chinese consciousness in his novels generated intense confrontations and still later there appeared a phenomenon of cultural hybridity. The Rough Sea preached the colonial modernization and "Taiwan Independence" ideology.Zhong Zhao-zheng was the pioneer of Taiwan epic creation. After completing the novel of the Roman-fleuve Trilogy, a sort of pre-training, he produced the majestic Taiwanese Trilogy, which is a typical novel of family history and through which the writer shows the history of the national spirit and by which he constructs the national epic. However, some literary historians deliberately deconstruct it to boost Taiwan independence by its literary history, to which we must be alert.From the perspective of creation approach, Zhong Zhao-zheng’s works in the1950s adopts the single perspective of typical narration and later that of children, thus learning to become "embodiment". The natural flow and change of the narrative perspective of the Wayside Flower makes the novel look like a Chinese painting scroll created by scatterplot perspective method. His novels in the1960s employ the focus perspective method to go into the subconscious layer, revealing the characters’ irrational stream of consciousness; while since the1970s, his novels have resorted to the overlapping of time and space to create artistic and beautiful conceptions.