The aspirations of Taiwan's people During the period of Japanese rule, which began in 1895 with the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the island's writers gained access to world literature, bringing Taiwanese literature into the modern era. The literary developments of the half century of Japanese colonial rule fall into three stages.
台灣庶民的心聲日治時期，台灣文學進入了近代世紀，因與世界文學接軌，開啟了另一扇窗。一八九五年，馬關條約使明治維新後的日本得以統治台灣，五十年的文學發展大致可以分為三個階段。