Wang Zhenhe

Who was Wang Zhenhe?

Wang Zhenhe is one of Taiwan's most famous writers. Wang's masterpiece is the comic novel Rose, Rose, I Love you, which is set in the coastal town of Hualien during the Vietnam War. The novel's plot centers on the efforts of the town's leaders to come together to set up a brothel to entertain a group of American GIs coming to Taiwan for R&R. Wang is considered the foremost representative of the "nativist literature movement" that swept Taiwan in the 1970s and 80s.