CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital”
p.111-112
- you, my dear
- memories
- a belief or a loved one vs. party affiliation
- tropical rain forests vs. commercial real estate
- background music
- gay
- seventeen-year-olds
p.127-134
- natives
- a Dutchman
- Maruyama, or Yuanshan–Rounded Hill
- Japanese Shinto shrines vs. Chinese palace-style Grand Hotel
- chrysanthemums and osmanthus (if your father had come from another province)
- hibiscuses and tree orchids (if your father was local Taiwanese)
- wisterias and arhat pines (if your ancestors had spoken Japanese)
- eucalyptuses and breadfruit trees (if your ancestors had fought in the South Pacific, even Australia, as imperial soldiers)
- Meiji Bridge, Chokushi Avenue
- MAAG dormitory, GIs, the TV show Peyton Place
- nationalism
- Japan was about to sever diplomatic ties with the island
- to help unseat the ruling party
- to be unable to recall what had originally been at the site
- the absence of the friend
- ancestors, the Spaniards, the Ketagalan tribe vs. MRT
- “If you want to leave, leave. Go back to where you came from”
- Was there such as place?
LUO Zhicheng, “The Bookstore of My Dreams”
- the jungle
- overlooked
- to stretch knowledge
- electricity has not yet reached
- memory lost
- ruined flags
- third-generation store keeper, Mr. L
- to read, to read those rare, abstruse souls
- its energy, its violence, and its unimaginable possibilities
- evening
XIA Yu, “The Hidden Queen and Her Invisible City”
- hidden, invisible
- map
- fugitive bronze statues
- lost umbrellas
- dotted lines
- Fate and History
- an autumn walking itinerary
- a light musical
- the cat
- never repent
Caroline HERBERT, “Postcolonial Cities”
- postcolonial
- identity, citizenship, and belonging
- to reimagine the city in resistance to its various rebuildings
- rhetoric of walking / city walker and city reader
- to rewrite the cultural cartography
- to reclaim the city from officious discourses
- alternative spatial knowledge
- anxious sites of remembering and forgetting
- presences of diverse absences
- palimpsest of histories, identities, and communities
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