Yang Kui (Chinese: 楊逵; pinyin: Yáng Kuí; Wade–Giles: Yang K'uei; 18 October 1906 – 12 March 1985) or Yō Ki, [1] originally named Yang Kui (楊貴), was a Taiwanese writer and social activist born in Tainan, Taiwan.

At the age of 10, Yang Kui (楊逵) witnessed the 1915 Tapani incident (噍吧哖事件) ― a large-scale revolt against Japanese rule in Taiwan. Experiencing the subsequent suppression by Japanese military officers, Yang started developing resentment toward Japan's approach to …

Jul 11, 2001 · Taiwanese author Yang Kui (楊逵, 1905 - 1985) penned his Declaration for Peace (和平宣言) in 1949, urging the newly-arrived KMT government to release all prisoners of conscience and renounce the violent oppression employed …

Yang Kui (楊逵), known as "Yo Ki” to Japanese readers, was a writer-activist who championed the proletarian literature movement in Taiwan during Japanese rule. After the Feburary 28 Incident of 1947, he drafted "A Declaration of Peace (和平宣言)” in 1948 and was subsequently imprisoned on the outlying Green Island for over a decade.

notions of culture, nationhood, and selfhood. I examine the ways in which Yang Kui's writing negotiates the politics of colonization and the construction of selfhood at a moment in Taiwanese history when identity was a burning issue. In so doing, a rather more complex picture of Yang Kui emerges, one that defies the political cate-

Around the end of the 1970s, Yang Kui (1906-1985) re-emerged as “an old writer who had fought against the Japanese colonial regime.” He broke his silence since his decades on Green Island as a White Terror prisoner, publishing his early fictions, memoirs, and …

Summary: Yang Kui was born in a small village in Tainan, and went to college in Japan as a youth. There he studied and learned about Marxism. When he returned to Taiwan, the only work he could find was gardening. Eventually he decided to raise geese for a living.

Yang Kui or Yō Ki, originally named Yang Kui (楊貴), was a Taiwanese writer and social activist born in Tainan, Taiwan. He used pen names such as Yang-kuei (楊逵), Yang Chien-wen (楊建文), Lai Chien-erh (賴健兒), Lin Ssu-wen (林泗文), and Ito Ryo.

The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains: The Sounds and Images of Yang Kui is an exhibition that includes installations, lecture performances, videos, and documents. This exhibition explores the historical process of “media transformation” in the literary works of Taiwanese veteran writer Yang Kui into music, songs, and concerts.

The Yang Kui Literature Memorial Museum (traditional Chinese: 楊逵文學紀念館; simplified Chinese: 杨逵文学纪念馆; pinyin: Yángkuí Wénxué Jìniànguǎn) is a museum in Xinhua District, Tainan, Taiwan. The museum is about Taiwan's author Yang Kui and filmmaker Ou Wei.