Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction

Haoyang Zhang

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Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction

Volume 7, Issue 2

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Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction
Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction
The University of Edinburgh, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9LH, UK
Vol. 7, Issue 2, Pages: 61-64(2026)
Published：30 April 2026
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786513.20260702
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Zhang Haoyang.Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(02):61-64.
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Zhang Haoyang.Dancing in Memory and Wandering in the winter night: Comparing Two Modes of Exile in Bai Xianyong's Fiction[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2026,07(02):61-64. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786513.20260702.

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Abstract

Exile in Bai Xianyong's

Taipei People

reflects varied emotional and historical conditions rather than a single experience of displacement. This study compares "The Last Night of Taipan Chin" and "Winter Night" through three dimensions: narrative style

spatial setting and the representation of history. The analysis shows that the former presents an exile shaped by memory and reflective nostalgia

where identity is sustained through recollection

while the latter depicts a more inward and existential condition marked by the collapse of ideals and a sense of disorientation. These differences reveal distinct modes of exile shaped by historical change

highlighting how different conditions give rise to varied psychological experiences of exile and offering a more nuanced understanding of exile in modern Chinese literature.

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