Taiwan's Half Of The Literary World

Lin Hai-yin, a well-known female writer in Taiwan, is a cultural people with multiple identities:literature correspondent, literature editor, press managers and characters in the literature social circle. Most of the studies on Lin’s achievement starts form her literary works. However, Lin’s statue in history of literature lies on not only her literary works, but also her excellent literary activities. This paper focuses on Lin’s literary activities such as editing, publishing and social activities in the literary world, exploring their significance to Taiwan literature.Lin Hai-yin has a unique aesthetic vision in the editing activity, she can find a large number of outstanding literary works and gets them published on United Daily News Supplement, which appeals to a large number of readers and occupies a high position in. As to the content, she prefers works with pure literariness. As to the form, she innovates the layout by adding distinvtive columns, which gives expression of her creative spirit. At the same time, Pure Literary Monthly,her self-supporting publication, serves as a gather palace for literary works of numerous cultural people. Outstanding foreign works open up vision for readers, and Chinese modern writers and works column builds a bridge between the modern readers in Taiwan and modern mainland writer. In addition, the pure literature style advocated by by Lin plays an important role in Taiwan cultural orientation.In publishing activities, Lin holds the objective management idea as a publisher, sets up the unique publication style, with her ways of "renewing old book","theme publishing","no return of book" the and so on, all of which impose great influence on the publication system in Taiwan. Pure literature press publishes many works including informative books and children’s literature. As a publisher, Lin plays the role of cultural transmission in the entire culture filed. In the process of literary activities, she gathered a batch of contemporary intellectuals in her times, and made literature research on the form such as literary salon. Lin’s social activities in literary filed became generating behavior of a kind of social value, thus creating a scholar of the atmosphere of "folk literature".Literary editing, publishing, exchange bears the function of cultural transmission, Lin practiced the concept of pure literature in literature activity, spreaded literary works dominated by literary and artistic style, bringing readers spiritual enrichment and thought ascension; She guided the reform of Taiwan publishing system, accelerating the growth and development of literature and publishing process and expanding the cultural space in Taiwan; She gathered a group of literary talents, strengthening the literary groups of writers in Taiwan; She drove the development of local literature, and strived a garden for Taiwanese literature, which is Lin’s special contribution to Taiwan’s literary world. She promoted the literature exchange between Chinese mainlands and Taiwan and push forward their development. Lin Hai-yin is enough to be called "Taiwan’s half-literary "in its real senses.