Tastes Replaced

The Taste of Apples Written by Huang Chunming the Taste of Apples is an interesting narration of the lives of a large Taiwanese family and how its members could have different directions following the incident where a foreign essence and power comes in contact with...

Tastes Replaced

The Tastes of Apples The Tastes of Apples is a collection of short stories by the Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming. It depicted the lives of the Taiwanese people who were often poor working class and focused mainly how the economic and cultural change that was brought...

5/7 Tastes Replace

HUANG Chun-ming, “The Taste of Apples” Hi Maataw Maataw or Orchid Island History: Prehistory The aboriginal people of the islands are the Tao, who immigrated from the Batanes about 800 years ago. Qing Dynasty – The island first appears on surviving charts in the...

《浮光》——生於火,浮於光

“仿佛在一个将熄未媳的炉火前,为那小小的,围聚的听众,编织一个故事。“ ——吴明益 To Some I Have Talked With By the Fire In the article titled To some I have talked with by the Fire by Wu Mingyi, a Taiwanese novelist, he stated that the idea of his novel The Man With the Compound Eyes was first...
5/2 Wing above Wing, Flame above Flame

5/2 Wing above Wing, Flame above Flame

Bob Dylan - The Man with the Compound Eyes     Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountainsI’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked...

Mountains and the Ocean – 2

"The Flames of War Burn in the Distant Sky" A key theme permeating the poems of Yang Mu is that of time. InThe Flames of War, Yang Mu describes life in Hualien during the Pacific War, but notably, the war exists only as a distant even, never truly affecting...