The third Nativist Literature Debate By the early 1970s, Taiwan was in a diplomatic bind. It had withdrawn from the United Nations and diplomatic ties with Japan had been severed. Along with the political debate, a wave of nativization swept through every level of Taiwanese society. Within the literary community, a reevaluation of the Modernism it had adopted with Westernization was unavoidable.
第三次鄉土文學論戰時序演進到一九七○年代，隨著台灣退出聯合國、中日斷交等外交困境，本土化聲浪隨政治擴散到社會各個層面，文學界不能不對經由西化而興起的現代主義做深切省思。