The history of Han ethnic in Pescadores could be traced further than that in Taiwan. Pass through hundred years of four dynasties (Song, Yuan, Ming, Ching) till nowadays, cross between turbulent Taiwan Strait with Taiwan and China on both end, there are numerous stories occurred in Pescadores which has become the fundamental elements to formulate Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. Ocean described in both natural and anthropologic rhetoric, records of disasters, descriptions of eight famous scenery spots and indigenous customs and resources of Pescadores, all these narrations constitute the divers and various Pescadores. The argument that Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry is the original of Taiwan classic poetry, as well as the original of Taiwan marine literature, verify doubtless position of Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry in Taiwan literature history. ¡@¡@The establishment of ¡§Wen-Shih tutor school¡¨ motivated Pescadores¡¦ civil sophist to study more diligently. As the result, adopting Han poetic structure to describe Pescadores had been no longer the privilege of rotating-bureaucrats and scholar-gentry. During Japanese colony era, not only former civil-literati of Ching dynasty instructed descendants to compose Han poetry actively, they also regarded Han poetry as the spiritual fortress to defend Chinese culture. Since then, poets from Pescadores were invited to Taiwan one after another to instruct sinology and influenced Han poetry development in certain Taiwan areas consequently. Even though New Taiwanese Literature bloomed after World War II, Pescadores¡¦ poets devoted themselves to classic poetry more enthusiastic in order to construct Pescadores¡¦ subjectivity from localized vision. From legends, historic scenes, scenery spots, local commodity, leisure time, custom activities, culture heritage to religion beliefs, the pure beauty could be easily found in Pescadores¡¦ classic poems, in the unsophisticated but sincere phrases and words. ¡@¡@This dissertation is composed of three sections. The first section focuses on background elaboration including geographic location, cultivating history and human activities in order to comprehend fundamental contents of Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. The second section focuses on composers¡¦ compilation which reviews the most significant Pescadores¡¦ classic poems during various eras (from Ming, Ching dynasties, Japanese colonization, post WWII age till nowadays) with biographical style historiography to understand chronographic evaluation and construct the development history of Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. The third section focuses on thematic methodology with human science viewpoints from geographic, historical, sociologic and esthetic aspects to explore subjects interpreted in Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. This dissertation therefore provides following academic results for reference: 1.Construct a more comprehensive development history as well as a more distinct contexture of Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. 2.Manifest Pescadores¡¦ classic poems with literature viewpoints to conclude corresponding meaningfulness during different eras in Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry development history. 3.File out Pescadores¡¦ poets of classic poetry in each era on literature ground to exhibit integrated interface for advanced research. 4.Present Pescadores¡¦ characteristics through interpreting various themes in Pescadores¡¦ classic poetry. 5.Verify the meaning and position of Pescadores¡¦ regional classic poetry to visualize so-called ¡§at liberty of being marginalized¡¨.

Poetry clubs composed of gentry women began to emerge during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The earliest female poetry clubs in this period were all kinship-based and organized within gentry families. This phenomenon shows that family was the major source for the foundation of female poetry clubs. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of family on the formation of kinship-based female poetry clubs from a political, social, and cultural perspective and to examine these clubs within the context of geographical location, family learning and marriage relationships. This thesis treats the Mingyuan Poetry Club founded by female members of the Fang family in Tongcheng city, Anhui province as the main focus of research to illustrate the family’s influence on the formation of gentry women poetry clubs by translating and analyzing the members’ poetic works and family life. / Graduate