CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital”
p.146 Loyalty New Village Nation
PAI Hsien-yung, “A Touch of Green”
- the war against Japan
- our capital, Nanking [Nanjing] – “Painted Capital” of Six Dynasties fame
- East Benevolence Village
- Verdancy Chu
- the Civil War broke out
- mah-jong
- the thirty-seventh year of the Republic [1948]
- started to flee the war and left Nanking…came to Taipei
- this housing complex for Air Force families is also called East Benevolence Village
- “A Touch of Green”
- Juninor Ku
YU Guangzhong, “Nostalgia”
- nostalgia
- a tiny stamp
- me – mother
- a narrow boat ticket
- me – bride
- a low, low grave
- me – mother
- a shallow strait
- me – mainland
SU Weizhen, “The End of the Military Family Village”
- many neighbors
- no ancestral tombs
- accents and dialects
- professional soldiers: navy, army, air force, military police, joint logistics
- Mandarin, Hakka, or Taiwanese
- a foreign country
- a microcosm of China
- Taiwan-born
- “Overcome-Challenge Theater” and “Self-Strengthening Women’s League”
- juncun, “military family village”
- second-generation mainlanders
- failure
- 1970s rebuild and redevelop
- post-World War II scars
- Where is home?
- the question of loyalty to our country
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