2/21 Military Family Villages

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CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital”

p.146 Loyalty New Village Nation

PAI Hsien-yung, “A Touch of Green”
  1. the war against Japan
  2. our capital, Nanking [Nanjing] – “Painted Capital” of Six Dynasties fame
  3. East Benevolence Village
  4. Verdancy Chu
  5. the Civil War broke out
  6. mah-jong
  7. the thirty-seventh year of the Republic [1948]
  8. started to flee the war and left Nanking…came to Taipei
  9. this housing complex for Air Force families is also called East Benevolence Village
  10. “A Touch of Green”
  11. Juninor Ku
YU Guangzhong, “Nostalgia”
  1. nostalgia
  2. a tiny stamp
  3. me – mother
  4. a narrow boat ticket
  5. me – bride
  6. a low, low grave
  7. me – mother
  8. a shallow strait
  9. me – mainland
SU Weizhen, “The End of the Military Family Village”
  1. many neighbors
  2. no ancestral tombs
  3. accents and dialects
  4. professional soldiers: navy, army, air force, military police, joint logistics
  5. Mandarin, Hakka, or Taiwanese
  6. a foreign country
  7. a microcosm of China
  8. Taiwan-born
  9. “Overcome-Challenge Theater” and “Self-Strengthening Women’s League”
  10. juncun, “military family village”
  11. second-generation mainlanders
  12. failure
  13. 1970s rebuild and redevelop
  14. post-World War II scars
  15. Where is home?
  16. the question of loyalty to our country