邱永漢は台湾出身の日本語文学作家として知られている。香港亡命から日本へ移住した邱永漢はアメリカ留学を希望していた。邱永漢は「日本語」ではなく「英語」を使って生きていく選択肢も探していたのである。そして直木賞受賞後も台湾問題に関する英語評論を発表し、世界へ訴えた。その内容は日本向けに書かれた評論と比べ、台湾の独立性を強く訴えていた。しかし日本国内では台湾問題というテーマは歓迎されず、邱永漢のテーマは「経済」に限定されていった。それでも「日本語」によって生き続け、後半生ではアジアまで活動を拡げた邱永漢の活動とテクストから、「日本語」の文化・文学が得られるものは大きい。

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Regardless of its English translation “overseas Chinese,” this research note tackles the term “Kakyō,” by analysing the narratives of Chinese and Taiwanese residents in post-war Japan to re-examine the shifting categorisations and labels of “Kakyō.” These shifting categorisations and labels of the so-called “Kakyō” are manifestly flimsy and incoherent in the pre-existing academic writings or works, when it comes to associations supporting the Taiwanese authorities or the peoples from Taiwan. This is because the researchers or writers tend to use “Kakyō” to refer to the Taiwanese people they coped with despite the recent growth of “Taiwanese identity” or the changing recognition of Taiwan’s independence. Undoubtedly, there is an increase of the researches that reposition Taiwan. However, to proclaim that these researches have shared a similar recognition under the Japanese context is far from being satisfactory, and it has turned out to be a convolution. Hence, being conscious of this convolution, this research note is an attempt to retrieve the narratives of “Kakyō,” especially by looking at how Taiwanese residents have been represented as varied categorisations and labels of “Kakyō” in post-war Japan.

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