| Summary: | 博士 === 國立成功大學 === 台灣文學系碩博士班 === 100 === As early as in 1994, my teacher, Professor Lin Rui-Ming, clearly pointed out in his private communication with writer Zhong Zhao-Zheng: “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon is a question that Taiwan Literature has to face”. So far as I know, it is the earliest voice in this country. As a cross-discipline phenomenon, all spiritual history or life history formed by Chen Ying-Zhen’s mental thinking and intellectual activities, especially Chen Ying-Zhen’s value selection in historical difficulties and all effects resulting from those selections, are the study objects of “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” and involved connotation. However, it is a great pity that discourses related with Chen Ying-Zhen has existed a kind of risk of standard story for a long time. Therefore, for discourses about Chen Ying-Zhen Study and Chen Ying-Zhen himself over these years, the writer planed to make explosives over and over with many archives and literatures that are rarely discussed or never discussed, just like what Walter Benjamin said, the occurrence of movies “damaged the cage world with one tenth second explosive”, so as to make the writer and all successors to seize the moment with the strongest implication and make an adventure travel unhurriedly among pieces-scattering ruins. Through putting evanescent “Chen Ying-Zhen” fragments into the eternal topics like family writing and national identity, it is expected that “standard story” can be decomposed form the cracks of existing scenes in the way of dismembering an ox as skillfully as a butcher. In this way, the repressed and variant parts in rhetoric and narratives will be emancipated. Then, through reconstituting those fragments one by one, “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” regains fable-like strength through the mode of defamiliarization, showing the blind spot and direction of contemporary Taiwan.
In style, it is expected that it is an orange-slice centripetal structure essay, which is named “Study on Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” and composed of seven ring-shape narrative chapters. Each chapter is like a piece of orange slice, it can be opened and peeled independently and closed symmetrically in narrative space. In the respect of writing strategy, the mode of “Peeling the Onion” is adopted, when a layer of shield is peeled off, more historical dawn light will reveal. Chapter One: a patriotic military song composed by Chen Ying-Zhen’s father Chen Yan-Xing personally during the period of Japanese Occupation and series of really-happened historical scenes were dug out, which clearly broke a political myth created by Chen Ying-Zhen for a long time. Chapter Two: Chen Ying-Zhen’s foster father Mr. Chen Gen-Wang, also his father’s third elder brother, was a senior Taiwanese police officer intentionally promoted by colony government during the period of Japanese Occupation, he acted as county councilman after the Second World War; with the excavation of the old historical materials, Chen Ying-Zhen has to face his always righteous but very ridiculous stand and argument once again. Chapter Three: as Chen Ying-Zhen always tried to “memorize” absolutely holy and pure Taiwan family in a hundred years again and again for decades of years in the way of “comparing family to country”. Through several empirical materials like “Old Family”, “Empire County Young Man”, “Criminality of War”, “Lu Xun”, “Left Wing”, “Socialism” and analysis, the chapter will summarize the unique phenomenon, in which we saw history on Chen Yan-Xing and Chen Gen-Wang on one hand while Chen Ying-Zhen created history on the other hand. Chapter Four and Five: limited but very valuable 57 “Chen Ying-Zhen’s letters to Zhong Zhao-Zheng” are used as the core of discourse to reappear the course, in which the two intimate “literature true friends” since 1960s finally separated as “debate opponents” in 1990s; at last, the nature of the meeting and departing of Zhong Zhao-Zheng and Chen Ying-Zhen is explained. Chapter Six and Seven: when realizing socialism idea and China reunification became Chen Ying-Zhen’s only viewing angle and the highest morality of interpreting the world, the writer tried to evaluate Chen Ying-Zhen, the man who regards literature as political servant girl, through the eight sections of “Red China”, “Youth of China”, “Moral World of China”, “Selected Works China”, “White China”, “Cultural Revolution China”, “June 4 China”, and “Regression China”.
Intentionally dressing up as Lu Xun from the nature of “Akutagawa”, Chen Ying-Zhen is worthy of our special appreciation. However, that does not represent that he wins our approval or we needs not to criticize him. Of course, Chen Ying-Zhen’s problem does not lie in embracing lofty idea, but he regards idea as a non-negotiable and unchallengeable goal; based on idea, he pursues for evidences, select evidences, and even wipes away or changes evidences when it is necessary to prove the idea that is deemed as goal; between goal and means, due to mental desire for Messiah, he lost a kind of minimum moral balance sense; at last, he could not help but became an prisoner of his own words and speeches. Just because of that, the essay discusses the whole set of politicized family history writing memory/skill, its writing strategy, that is, to pursue for some kind of transcendent political idea of goal, he lets writing objects become instrumentalization, which is just Chen Ying-Zhen’s habitual discourse strategy for a long time, political operation and religious redemption jointly constitute a lifetime “China feelings”. In its reality, the nature of “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” is the summation of all relations across the Taiwan Straits, it not only explains that Chen Ying-Zhen’s life history or spiritual history is one of the outcomes of position identity, left wing visual field, unification or independence stand, and various of differences in the whole Taiwan certain society, but also proves that lots of “means vs. goal”/ “presentation vs. truth” are upside down intentionally in state-nation discourses, and one can see shielded or helpless conclusions every where in the discourses. The writer believes that the essay is not only a regenerative interface of “Study on Chen Ying-Zhen”, but also an effective witness of a part of ridiculous writing in existing Taiwan literature history. If the continuous effect and social current situations generated by “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” are ignored by educational circles, some day, the fable “Emperor’s New Clothes” brought by “Chen Ying-Zhen Phenomenon” will develop to be all kinds of “Chen Ying-Zhen Problems”, at that time, the research results of the essay will be worthy of the name “Prediction of Taiwan”.
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