5/14 Formosa Revisited Once Again

by | May 13, 2019 | keywords

"Zeelandia," "Formosa, 1661," "Taiwan," and "Pacific Wind"

See my 2/7 Formosa keywords:

2/7 Formosa

And think about what “your own songs/words/voices” mean. The following documentary and song will also be (re-)visited in class:

YING Fenghuang, “The Literary Development of Zhong Lihe and Postcolonial Discourse in Taiwan”
  1. 1960 Zhong Lihe passed away
  2. difficulties and loneliness
  3. 1970s nativist movement
  4. 1980s Taiwanese consciousness debate
  5. 1990s postcolonial theory debate
  6. it was during the nativist movement that Zhong’s work first began to be widely known
  7. 1937-45 Japanese imperialized period
    • marrying someone with the same surname
    • forced to leave his hometown and go to China
    • short stories in Chinese
    • short stories about China
  8. ideological disputes
    • social consciousness
    • ethnic identity

Zhong Lihe Memorial Museum (photos taken by Serena Calcagno ’17):