The Man Crawling upon the Earth

◎Zhang Wen-huan is one of the foremost writers of Taiwanese literature during the Japanese colonial period. The Man Crawling upon the Earth is a novel he wrote in Japanese after a 30-year hiatus.
◎The Man Crawling upon the Earth is a story set in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. The five-year old boy Chen Kei-min is adopted into a mountain village shopkeeper's family.
◎With humor and humanistic understanding, the author Zhang Wen-huan pictures the people’s traditional way of life marked by annual festivities.

Zhang Wen-huan 張文環

Zhang Wen-huan (張文環), 1909-1978, was born in Daiping Chun, in the present Taiping Community, Meishan, Chiayi County Taiwan, He completed his secondary education in Okayama Prefecture, Japan and went on to study literature at Tōyō University. In 1932, he formed a research group on Taiwanese literature with other foreign students in Tokyo and launched the magazine Formosa. His story “Father’s Face” 「父の顔」(1943) was selected as an outstanding work by the Japanese magazine Chūō-kōron (中央公論).
Zhang married Sadakane Namiko (Zhang Fumei) in Tokyo. He returned to Taiwan in 1937. In the following ye

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