3/5 Stadiums

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” Read this webpage. MORRIS, “Introduction” to A History of Baseball in Taiwan a Meiji-era import to Japanthe Japanese empirethe Japanese spiritthe Chinese spiritthe Taiwanese government – 2000 election of Chen Shui-bianglobal...

2/28 Dadaocheng

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” p.210-212You walked along, following the landmark map in your head, to Dihua Street, where you had stopped for all kinds of things for the three major holidays of the year.So you were forced to enter from Lane 49, one side of which...

2/26 Tamsui

CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” p.113-116the wide river [Tamsui River]: “Doesn’t that look like the Yangtze River?” / You ignored the single-ridge southern Min-style houses, with their slanted roofs, agreeing that it was a San Francisco sort of...

2/21 Military Family Villages

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

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

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...