2/21 Military Family Villages

by | Feb 20, 2019 | keywords

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” p.146 Loyalty New Village Nation PAI Hsien-yung, “A Touch of Green” the war against Japanour capital, Nanking [Nanjing] – “Painted Capital” of Six Dynasties fameEast Benevolence VillageVerdancy Chuthe Civil War broke...

2/19 Taipei and Kyoto

by | Feb 16, 2019 | keywords

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” p.135 the bridge at Shijo where he had first met “Chieko’s Naeko” or “Naeko’s Chieko”lovers who seemed to never leaveYou told your daughter that southern China was just like that. When had you ever...

2/14 A City of Memory and Forgetting

by | Feb 13, 2019 | keywords

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” p.111-112you, my dearmemoriesa belief or a loved one vs. party affiliationtropical rain forests vs. commercial real estatebackground musicgayseventeen-year-oldsp.127-134nativesa DutchmanMaruyama, or Yuanshan–Rounded...

2/12 Classrooms

by | Feb 9, 2019 | keywords

ZHONG Lihe, “From the Old Country” Hoklo and Tangshan renJapaneseHakka and yuanxiang ren (Old Country people)old-style village educationJapanese school, Shina, Shina jinFather, brother1937 Sino-Japanese Warcolonialism, the fatherland, revolution YANG Mu, “Wild Olives”...

2/7 Formosa

by | Feb 5, 2019 | keywords

YANG Mu, “Zeelandia” the enemy sidethe muggy droning of cicadasa bed of wind, your bed of cool windheryoueach pearl is a battle bullet holesZeelandiaan archipelago of spicesIhla Formosacolonize vs. surrendered CHEN Li, “Formosa, 1661” Imy blood, urine, and...