China-centrism in the writing of Huang Chunming

Chapter 5 presents an unconventional interpretation of a beloved Taiwanese writer: Huang Chunming. Huang is widely acclaimed as a vox populi who possesses a popular storytelling style. What is less acknowledged is the Chineseness of his fictional works: the language, the folklore and myth, and the legacy of traditional values and beliefs. The iconography extends to the Arcadian precontact ideal, Taiwan as China, and self-Orientalism as allegory. Huang’s polemical works negotiate China-centrism to contest Japanese and American cultural imperialism and the incursion into the periphery of the international business project. The Chinese cultural scaffolding implies Chinese self-identification as the default mode.