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賴和 (Lai He)

賴和 (Lai He, 1894–1943) wrote in the Japanese era, mostly in vernacular Chinese, and published much of his work in the newspapers 《台灣民報》 and 《台灣新民報》. He signed some pieces 賴和, many 懶雲, and others 甫三 or 安都生. The index follows him under all of them, and records the byline printed in the paper.

Why start here

Lai He's fiction, essays and poems appeared in public newspapers, and a public archive lists their issues, dates and bylines. That makes him the one author where we can check an entry against the printed record instead of another scholar's list. He is also the writer in this period whose original text we can read ourselves.

What is in the index

The index has 82 entries: short stories, new-style and classical poems, essays, a diary and a few documents. Twenty have been checked against the newspaper database's issue listings, and each of those has its own page. The rest are leads. Where the sources disagree, the entry records both versions.

In English

Part of his work has been translated, but it is scattered. Darryl Sterk's Scales of Injustice (Honford Star, 2018) gathers his complete fiction. Other translations appeared in the Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series and in older anthologies. Twenty of the 82 entries report an English translation. For many of the rest, we found none in the sources we checked, which is not the same as there being none.

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