Sheng, Hao-Wei

Introduction

Sheng Hao-Wei, born in 1988, graduated from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature and the Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Taiwan University. He is now a lecturer at the modern private school "Yu Dian Tang", where he teaches courses related to literary theory, Taiwanese literature and Japanese literature. Sheng is the author of "The Thing Called Me" (essay collection, 2017) and co-author of "Anecdotes of Huali Island: The Key" (collective fiction, 2017), "The Coming of the Final Battle" (non-fiction, 2017), and "100 Years of Taiwanese Literature: 1900-2000 " (non-fiction, 2018). He received the TSMC Young Student Literature Award and the China Times Literature Award, and his co-authored book was awarded the 2018 Openbook Good Book of the Year Award.

Resident planning

The long historical novel "Shoto Dreamscape" will be based on actual historical materials and facts, and features two Japanese people from this group, Nakamura Okei and Sekiguchi Takamasa. The novel depicts the changes they encountered at the end of the 19th century, how they came to Taiwan, what they did in Taiwan, and how their lives ended up in Taiwan. Through writing the stories of the two individuals, we hope to bring back the contemporary memory of this group of people that once lived in Taiwan. We also hope to open up different historical imaginations about Japanese colonization and modernization through fiction and literature.