| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 105 === This paper intends to probe into the collection of short stories “A La-Tzu Woman” written by the novelist Li Yung-ping and published in Taiwan in 1976, including the issues such as the history, politics and ethnic groups of his hometown Sarawak on the island of Borneo. The Introduction hereto elucidates the research motive, literature review, research methods, chapter structure and a biographical note on the author. The short novels “Tian Lulu”, “Indo-Chinese -- City-Besieged Mother” and “The Raven and the Sun” written in the second chapter indicate that China’s national power declined and faced serious domestic problems and foreign invasion during the end of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. Furthermore, the Sarawak government enacted laws to encourage Chinese people to reclaim wasteland in Sarawak at the end of the nineteenth century, and therefore a large number of Chinese people lived dispersed throughout Sarawak. The Chinese began to make a living in Sarawak and faced many hardships of frontier life.
The third chapter discusses ethnic group issues: including the narrative in the “Indo-Chinese -- City-Besieged Mother” that indicates a lot of friction in the daily life of the two ethnic groups accounting for the largest majority and the second largest majority of Sarawak population, which are the Chinese and the Dayaks, because of different cultures, religious beliefs, temperaments, etc.; “A La-Tzu Woman” and “Indo-Chinese -- Hybrid Orchids” depict the racism which caused marriage obstruction after intermarriage between the Chinese and the Dayaks. In addition, after the “513 Incident” racial conflict brought by the Chinese and the Malays in 1969, Malaysia commenced implementation of a 20-year term “New Economic Policy” in 1971 aimed at guaranteeing preferential admission to schools and employment for all indigenous people. Such policy was replaced by the “National Development Policy” after its end. However, the purpose was exactly the same; thereby the Chinese declined into second-class Malaysian citizens. Li Yung-ping transmitted sensitive political issues by using his writing skills in “The Raven and the Sun”.
The fourth chapter explores the Chinese-the colonists situation of getting along with each other during the British Colonial period in the “Tian Lulu”, “Indo-Chinese -- City-Besieged Mother”, “Indo-Chinese -- Hybrid Orchids” and “The Raven and the Sun”; the identity impact on younger generations of Chinese people caused by English education and Chinese Education, and a difference between the two Chinese generations in emotions toward the hometown Tangshan. Furthermore, the rise of socialism in the third world countries and the flaming nationalism in Southeast Asia after the Second World War at the beginning of the twentieth century led to the Sarawak communists’ rebellion against British colonialism and Malaysia''s regime. Chapter 5 summarizes the issues of disperse living, ethnic groups, colonialism and anti-colonialism referred to hereinabove and narrated in “A La-Tzu Woman” by Li Yung-ping.
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