2/12 Classrooms

by | Feb 9, 2019 | keywords

ZHONG Lihe, “From the Old Country”
  1. Hoklo and Tangshan ren
  2. Japanese
  3. Hakka and yuanxiang ren (Old Country people)
  4. old-style village education
  5. Japanese school, Shina, Shina jin
  6. Father, brother
  7. 1937 Sino-Japanese War
  8. colonialism, the fatherland, revolution
YANG Mu, “Wild Olives” and “Love, Beauty, and Rebellion”
  1. wild Chinese olive tree
  2. anger and fear
  3. doctors, teachers, musical conductors, and the intelligentsia of the small community vs. the military and police
  4. slogan vs. the wisteria blossoms, the cockscombs and canna lilies
  5. a teacher from Hualien
  6. Teacher Feng
  7. Bunun
  8. Japanese, Taiwanese, Hakka, the “National Language” (Mandarin), dialects from all over China vs. Mount Qilai

  

YANG Mu, “Someone Asks Me a Question About Justice and Righteousness”
  1. (rain drips on banana leaves)
  2. ancestry
  3. (a black bird)
  4. Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent
  5. a Twentieth-Century Pear
  6. the rain has stopped
  7. sunlight from behind the banana trees
  8. his father, whose impassioned speech in a heavy accent even his own son couldn’t fully understand
  9. his mother taught him Japanese nursery rhymes
  10. moldy spots left by the rain in the corner
  11. false sunlight
  12. an eerie spider
  13. mosquitos in a dark cloud
  14. homesickness vs. birthmark
  15. dried-up lakes
  16. a pigeon
  17. a wasteland
  18. a storm