the Journalists Association of Tokyo, Gōgai. In 1932, Yang published his work The Newspaper Boy in Taiwan xinminbao (Taiwan New People's News). It was published in Chinese as Songbaofu. Yang published under the name Yang Kui instead of his original name Yang Gui, having been convinced to do so by Lai He. In 1934, The Newspaper Boy won second prize in the Tokyo leftist magazine Bungaku hyōron. Yang was influenced by Russian realist literature, Karl Marx's Capital, and Japanese proletarian movements, using them to influence his socialist ideas. He had also been influenced by anarchism, having read Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin after the death of Ōsugi Sakae. Yang identified as a "humanitarian socialist", and associated with Japanese socialists and unionists. He defended realism, and believed that literature "had to come from the indigenous soil" instead of being about "the war effort or personal aestheticism". See also Yang Kui Literature Memorial Museum References Citations Bibliography External links "The Indomitable Rose-- The Yang Kui Literary Memorial Hall ," Taiwan Culture Portal, 15 May 2007 "壓不扁的玫瑰" (The Indomitable Rose) by Yang K'uei 楊逵文學的流變佮伊的意義 (The Significance of Fluctuating Yang Kui's Literature). 1905 births 1985 deaths Taiwanese male novelists Taiwanese prisoners and detainees Writers from Tainan 20th-century novelists 20th-century male writers