This essay is an attempt to trace the historical trajectories of the life and/or afterlife of the leftists in the 1950s Taiwan, through close readings of five key texts of Chen Yingzhen's five novels, written from 1960 to 1994. The result is a preliminary picture of the structural configuration of the spiritual history of the leftists from that era. The major discovery is that through writing practices, Chen Yingzhen inherits the thought and sentiment of the 1950s generation. Its contribution goes far beyond bridging the crucial link between the past and present in Taiwan into establishing critical connections with mainland China and the Third Word, especially in the upholding the socialist spirit of the world revolution. How to continue to recover, rescue, research and writing the postwar leftist history in Taiwan is a real challenge to the critical intellectual circle of thought.