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Nov 01, 1925 Died on 11 Dec 2008 (aged 83)
Taiwanese historians
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- Yeh Shih-tao (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yè Shítao; Wade–Giles: Yeh Shih-t'ao; Pe?h-oe-ji: Ia?p Se?k-tô?; 1925 – 11 December 2008) was a pioneering Taiwanese writer and historian, who specialized in the literary history of Taiwan and the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people.
- He was considered a seminal figure in Taiwanese literary criticism. Yeh Shih-tao was born in Tainan, Taiwan, in 1925 at a time when Taiwan was under Japanese rule.
- His early writings were in Japanese, but he switched to Chinese after the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek gained control of Taiwan following the end of World War II.
- He was arrested by the Chiang Kai-shek regime in 1951 and imprisoned for three years for allegedly harboring "communist agents."Author of No Land, No Literature (????, ????), The Dilemmas of Taiwan Literature and History of Taiwanese Literature (??????), he chronicled 300 years of the island's literary history and gained renown "for his searing portrayals of ordinary Taiwanese".
- His best known work was likely The Chronicle of Taiwanese Literature, a compilation of Taiwanese historical literature published in 1987.Yeh later served as an adviser of the Teacher Human Rights Advocate Committee in Kaohsiung, and was appointed a national policy adviser to the Chen Shui-bian government.Yeh Shih-tao died of intestinal cancer in Kaohsiung, on 11 December 2008, at the age of 83.
- He had been continuously hospitalized since February 2008.
- Yeh was survived by his wife and two sons.Yeh's works of fiction have been translated to a number of languages, among them English, Japanese, Korean, Malay, and Vietnamese.
