| Abstract |
This paper explores Taiwanese classical poetry Tourist Poems to Japan（日東遊草）written by Liang Zi-jia（梁子嘉）during the beginning of Japanese Colonial Period. In the poetry, it explores the cultural distinction and identification, the emotional vision and blur of the Chinese classical poets when they confronted Japan, the new empire in East Asia. Since the time of Liang’s transboundary travel is after Sino-Japanese war , the next year of the cession of Taiwan to Japan, the significance of nation-healing action was highlighted. In Liang’s Poems, he describes the scenery of port city, Japanese history and civilization. All lyrical imagination and aesthetic visualization, or intoned to history and sense on the times, make us think about the similaritiy and differences either in geographic imagery, or spatial and temporal awareness between Liang Zi-jia who travelled to an exotic country, and the abandoned adherents who stayed in Taiwan, and the exile emigrants who fled to Mainland. We also probe that how Liang Zi-jia reflected on the disputes between Japan, China, and Taiwan, through the transboundary travel, in order to heal the trauma from the nation defeat situation.
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