2/7 Formosa

by | Feb 5, 2019 | keywords

YANG Mu, “Zeelandia”
  1. the enemy side
  2. the muggy droning of cicadas
  3. a bed of wind, your bed of cool wind
  4. her
  5. you
  6. each pearl is a battle bullet holes
  7. Zeelandia
  8. an archipelago of spices
  9. Ihla Formosa
  10. colonize vs. surrendered
CHEN Li, “Formosa, 1661”
  1. I
  2. my blood, urine, and excrement
  3. cowhide – land, the spirit of omnipresent God, knowledge, flag, dictionary
  4. the aborigines
  5. the whole Tayouan island, the whole Formosa
  6. cane sugar
  7. bananas
  8. East India Company
  9. their Dutch smell of venison
  10. the Sideia language I utter
  11. Rotterdam
  12. Batavia
  13. Zeelandia
  14. spices
  15. those Chinese troops
CHEN Xiuxi, “Taiwan”
  1. cradle
  2. the flowery island
  3. Mother
  4. proud-boned ancestors
  5. rice straw
  6. banyan trees
  7. bananas
  8. their earnest words
  9. the waves of the straits
  10. the whirling Typhoon
Kimbo, “Pacific Wind”
  1. the Pacific wind
  2. imperial flags
  3. betel nut
  4. fragrance of orchids

 “betel nut”  “orchids”

C. A. CURWEN, “Review - Koxinga and Chinese Nationalism by Ralph C. Croizier”
  1. Cheng Ch’eng-kung / Zheng Chenggong
  2. Kuo-hsing-yeh / Guo-xing-ye / Koxinga / Lord of Imperial Surname
  3. hero-worship
  4. memory
  5. official canonization
  6. a Chinese father
  7. a Japanese mother
  8. Taiwan
  9. Dutch
  10. martial leader against a foreign enemy
  11. the Ming régime
  12. the Manchu invasion
  13. loyal servant of a fallen dynasty
  14. Western encroachment / imperialism
  15. anti-Manchu revolution
  16. Chinese nationalism
  17. Japanese colonization
  18. Japanese pioneer and civilizer