The New Versus Old Literary Debate and the Taiwanese Language Movement followed. Traditional literature gradually fell from favor and Taiwanese literature, influenced by European writers 'desire to emancipate the individual from social constraints, began to focus on critical, socially realistic themes. Most of these works were written in Chinese and most were published in the Taiwanese People's Newspaper.
新舊文學爭論、台語白話文運動等陸續展開；傳統舊文學逐漸式微，受到歐美作家以追求人性解放和社會解放的思潮影響，展開了具批判性、社會寫實主義的創作主調，作品多發表在「台灣民報」，以中文為主。