[3] Regarding the rising atmosphere of nationalism (whether in China or Taiwan) within the Department of Literature in Taiwan and in the country, Liu Shuqin once advised readers in the preface of her representative work "The Thorny Road: Literary Activities and Cultural Struggles of Taiwanese Youth in Japan," saying: "While fighting colonialism, the nation-state has to some extent fallen into the perspective of cultural essentialism.
This cultural phenomenon has long and profound social roots, reflecting our society's power and desire to express collective emotions and understand our land and history.
At the "Current Issues in Taiwanese Literature Symposium" held by the Taiwan Research Center of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Providence University, the National Museum of Taiwanese Literature, the Taiwan Research Center platform, and relevant university departments and institutes were called upon to invite people from all walks of life to discuss the various changes that have occurred in the domestic cultural and educational fields in recent years through some means (such as a series of workshops) and to think about the various impacts these changes have brought to the discipline of, the social needs they reflect, and the strategies for responding to these changes.
[8] As of now (August 27, 2014), the electronic files of most articles can be found on the personal web pages of teachers at the Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Tsing Hua University.
Liu Shuqin, Li Zhuoying, Zhao Qinghua, and others co-authored "Going to Dachuan: An Oral Biography of Ji Gang," National Taiwan Literature Museum, Tainan, June 2011.