A translating mind After the war, Taiwan went from being a Japanese colony to being governed by the Chinese Nationalists. The political change also brought linguistic challenges for Taiwanese authors. Unlike writers such as Yeh Shih-tao, Chung only started writing in Chinese after the war.
「譯腦」戰後，台灣改朝換代，政權從日本殖民者轉移到國民政府手中，本省作家都面對語言轉換所構築的障礙，然而與葉石濤等作家不同，鍾肇政是戰後才開始以中文創作。