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Wu Zhuo Liu was born in 1900, he passed away at 77 in 1976. He published <Shuiyue> in The Taiwan New Literature as his the first work of art. He had done his works of art for 38 years until completing his last work of art, <Taiwan Yanqiao>. He had gone through an age of turbulence which were the Japanese colonial era, World War Two, Taiwan Independence, Nationalist Government in Taiwan. In this regard, He played an important role in connecting the Japanese colonial era to the beginning of Taiwan Independence. The Union China in the Chinese side and the Taiwan Independence party, both parties are trying hard to justify their theory for a political purpose that had taken advantage of Wu Zhuo Liu's works. The content of pieces of his works was contained Taiwanese colonial life, the horrors of secondary war, social chaos after Independence, an economic loot and economic panic. It also described a police system during the colonial era, the overall social features and a miserable life. He depicted specifically the sense of identity of Taiwan, the universal worries and concerns of Taiwanese in the works. This is the value of the work. At this point, he explained that “my novel contains historical character and represent social aspects. Currently, 19 volumes are available to reflect the Japanese colonial era, social aspects after Independence and political influence, therefore, we can recognize the nature of facts”. He described pro-Japanese group, discrimination, the powerless of Taiwanese, monopoly of power, economic monopoly, the difficulty of public livelihood by qualify themselves as a native from the Japanese colonial era through the beginning of Taiwan Independence in the works. The author would divide intellectuals form, scholars who toe the government line form. women's movement form and lower class form in short novels out of these Wu Zhuo Liu's works and reflect social aspects and distorted social phenomena caused by the political influence after the Japanese colonial era and Independence.

Wu Zhuo Liu, Taiwan Modern Literature, the Japanese colonial era, Nationalist government, Wu Zhuo Liu's short stories