By subjecting a class of Taiwanese fictions to study in the critical framework of naturalism the author redefines an unsettling relationship between them and their Chinese as well as Japanese counterparts, further identifying some aspects of the cultural entity as belonging properly to Taiwanese literature. -------------------------- C. H. Wang, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle. ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... . . .... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... In this trenchant and lively study Nai-Huei Shen provides a new...