''New Taiwanese Literature'', also referred to as ''Taiwanese New Literature'' or by the Japanese name ''Taiwan Shinbungaku'', was a literary magazine published briefly during the period of Japanese rule over Taiwan. The editor-in-chief, Yō Ki, had previously been on the board of another journal, '' Taiwan Bungei'', but left after a dispute regarding editorial policy and established ''New Taiwanese Literature''. The first issue was published in December 1935. Yō supported the magazine with his own funds, soliciting contributions from not only local writers, but Japanese writers of the

proletarian literature Proletarian literature refers here to the literature created by left-wing writers mainly for the class-consciousness, class-conscious proletariat. Though the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that because it "is essentially an intended device of ...

movement such as Hayama Yoshiki, Ishikawa Tatsuzō, and Hirabayashi Taiko as well as Korean writer Chō Kakuchū (張赫宙). In total, 15 issues of the magazine went to press. It published works in Japanese as well as Chinese, but was nevertheless ordered to cease publication in April 1937 in part of a wider campaign to prohibit the use of the

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. Its closure represented the start of a period of stasis in the development of Taiwanese literature which would last until Yō Unhei established the in 1939.

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