Mountains and the Ocean – 1 (Dorie and Evy)

by | Apr 10, 2019 | pair scribes

Atayal Amis Paiwan Three main aboriginal groups are mentioned in the readings. The Atayal in Walis Nokan’s “Atayal,” the Amis in Yang Mu’s “Close to Xiuguluan” and “Their World,” and the Paiwan in Zhong Lihe’s “My Grandma from the Mountains.”    Flag Sun WALIS Nokan,...

Tamsui (Evy and Dorie)

by | Feb 28, 2019 | pair scribes

A connecting theme throughout the readings was the idea of a “utopia”.  A utopia, as defined by the dictionary, is an “imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect”.  In other words, a place that doesn’t exist, a “nowhere place”.   In “The Old...