Abstract
Utilizing the leading female chracters in Shih Shu-Ching’s Taiwan Trilogy who are Xu Qing in Xin Guo Luo Jing, Yokoyama-Tsukihime in Feng Qian Chen Ai, and Wang Zhang-Zhu in San Shi Ren, this thesis aims at exploring and analyzing the above charaters’ images, psychological changes and social relations. In order to understand how these characters express themselves from Shi Shu-Ching’s ideas of feminism, the functions and the strategies used to decribe the three characters will then be explored in this thesis. Known as a skillful and mature Taiwanese writer, Shih Shu-Ching finished an epic Taiwan Trilogy after she published HongKong Trilogy. As Shih’s designing main body of this historical novel, the similar chracristics of the three parts are given as powerless minorities; moreover, the novel begins with Taiwan’s minor historical bacdground from the periods of late Ching Dynasty to Japanese colonization and finally to 228 incident. By reviewing how these female characters present themselves and how they experience in Taiwanese modern history, novelists perform another historical view points different from what main stream performs. Thus, the exploration of the changing Taiwan status throughout modern history porvides a multiple historical perspective.