Yeh Shih-tao

[1] His early writings were in Japanese, but he switched to Chinese after the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek gained control of Taiwan following the end of World War II.

[1] He wrote three novels while attending high school, one of which, titled A Letter from Lin (林君來的信), was published in April 1943 as Yeh's debut work.

[1] Yeh Shih-tao's early literary influences came from the Japanese writer Mitsuru Nishikawa, and his works bore a romanticism tint.

In 1945, with the Nationalist government taking control of Taiwan, Yeh began learning Chinese and started experimenting with Chinese-language writing.

Yeh Shih-tao believed in constructing a literary historical perspective for Taiwan based on the nativism consciousness in regional literature.