Taiwan’s first modern art group Le Moulin Poetry Society arose in the 1930s with their poetic protest against the colonial power's cultural... More

Taiwan’s first modern art group Le Moulin Poetry Society arose in the 1930s with their poetic protest against the colonial power's cultural superiority. The name reflected the group's orientation towards the West while especially strongly influenced by France. Regarding the Surrealists as their absolute role models, Le Moulin poets composed poetry in an uncompromising and aesthetically sophisticated style to confront the turbulent era they lived in. Le Moulin not only tries to record a historical period that paved the way for a new freedom and self-awareness, but also to explore how Asian Modernist writers reinvent Modernism through encountering foreign culture and their contemplation upon identities. Close