2/14 A City of Memory and Forgetting

by | Feb 13, 2019 | keywords

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital”

p.111-112

  1. you, my dear
  2. memories
  3. a belief or a loved one vs. party affiliation
  4. tropical rain forests vs. commercial real estate
  5. background music
  6. gay
  7. seventeen-year-olds

p.127-134

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