Taiwan's "new literature" movement took off in the early 1920s, and in this period many of its masters would also write some excellent classical-style poems, Take, for instance, Lai Ho, the father of Taiwan's new literature, who started his career writing classical poems.
民國十年左右，台灣的新文學運動興起，然而其中許多健將的舊詩也做得很好。