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Loa Ho ( Chinese: 賴和; pinyin: Lài Hé; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Loā Hô) (28 May 1894 – 31 January 1943), real name Loa Ho (賴河) and Lai Kuie-ho, pen name Lan Yun, Fu San, An Tu-shêng, Hui, Tsou Chieh-hsien, Kung I-Chi, Lang, etc., was a Taiwanese poet who was born in Changhua County, Taiwan Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan Province, Qing dynasty ...
Oct 8, 2018 · Scales of Injustice is a collection of Loa Ho’s twenty-one short stories on various kinds of unfairness experienced by many Taiwanese people during Japanese rule. Unlike other translated versions that arrange the stories chronologically according to when they were written, this edition is discreetly sectioned by the translator Darryl Sterk ...
Sep 6, 2018 · Lōa Hô’s short stories explore the day-to-day machinations of foreign power on a very small scale. These stories capture the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic intersection of townspeople and villager life when confronted with foreign officialdom.
Aug 2, 2018 · Loa Ho is crucial to the development of modern Taiwanese literature. Scales of Injustice by Loa Ho, translated by Darryl Sterk, Honford Star, 2018. It is never easy to translate a founding figure in a literary field, let alone a pioneering writer who has been translated by influential translators before.
Apr 27, 2018 · Scales of Injustice contains the complete fiction of Loa Hô, with an expert introduction from Pei-yin Lin and explanatory notes by translator Darryl Sterk. As a doctor during the colonial period in Taiwan, Loa witnessed the cruelty of Japanese rule and wrote stories which display both his sense of justice and social insight.
Lōa Hô (also Lai He, 1894-1943) was a pioneering writer from Taiwan often called the 'father of New Taiwanese Literature'. As a doctor during the colonial period in Taiwan, Loa witnessed the cruelty of Japanese rule and wrote stories which display both his sense of justice and social insight.
Aug 16, 2018 · One of their first publications is a complete edition of the short stories of Loa Ho (賴河, 1894-1943), seen by many as the father of Taiwanese literature written in the vernacular. Loa, also known as Lai He (賴和), wrote during the era of Japanese occupation.
