Abstract
In Japanese colonial time, among various means of the communication of modern knowledge and concepts, popular readings was the most powerful medium, but it was also the most difficult to evaluate its influence. This study attempts to take Long Ying-tsung(1910-1999) as an example, analyzing the background and necessity of the use of mass literature by observing an important pure literature writer''''s application of mass literature. Long chooses a special method, a unique angle, and an extraordinary period of time. ”Madame Chou''''s Giguwa” successfully captures fragments of the time of transformation when mass literature throve to the utmost and was going to decline in the colony. It also conveys the author''''s criticism on the reading market and the reader responses at that time. This paper will first analyze how, with formal experiment intention, this ironic novel constructs its unique form through double-layer narratives, multi-perspectives narratives, and a light texture style. Second, it will explore how this novel experiments on the fictionalization of realism by the introduction of the elements of mass literature and the building of intermediate colors. Third, it will discuss how it depicts the prospering phenomenon of mass literature through the description of the reader''''s response, and what impact this phenomenon has on women''''s parenting and social value orientation. Fourth and fifth, it will induce the author''''s reflection upon the reading market in Taiwan and other related social and cultural phenomena in the transformation period when popular culture was about to decline and wartime culture was rising.