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In
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
, Fukan () are literary supplements in
newspaper
A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
s.
History
From the 1950s to the early 1990s, the fukan were the main place for publishing literature in
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. Fukan could occupy up to 1/3 of the space of the entire paper. The rise of
publishing house
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...
s in the early 1990s have shrunk the fukan down to a single page.
As of 2004, the remaining notable fukans are Renjian (人間) ("human realm") of the ''
China Times
The ''China Times'' (, abbr. ) is a daily Chinese-language newspaper published in Taiwan. It is one of the four largest newspapers in Taiwan. It is owned by Want Want, which also owns TV stations CTV and CTiTV.
History
The ''China Times'' was fo ...
'' and Lianhe fukan of ''
United Daily News
''United Daily News'' (UDN; ) is a newspaper published in Taiwan. It is considered to support the pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials.
History
UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, ''Popular Daily'' (å…¨æ°‘æ— ...
''.
References
*Chang, Yvonne. ''Literary Culture in Taiwan: Martial Law to Market Law''. Ch.6: "Fukan-Based Literary Culture and Middle-Class Fiction." NY: Columbia UP, 2004.
Taiwanese culture
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