by Binqian Xiang | Apr 16, 2019 | pair scribes
Classroom Discussion The East Asia for all podcast talks about the movie we watched in class called Warriors of the Rainbow. We discussed topics from the podcast, as well as some of the topics that interested us. These topics included gender, tatoos, female voice,...
by stryke1 | 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,...
by miller11 | Apr 4, 2019 | pair scribes
Walis Nokan, “Atayal” The Atayal tribe lived by the Taroko Gorge mentioned in the heading of the section 1 of the poem. This poem is rich with symbolism and imagery. The sun rises over the Pacific Ocean, but the sun also symbolizes the arrival of the...
by Mei Meng Kreibich | Mar 5, 2019 | pair scribes
February 28th Incident “It’s one of the biggest historical events in Taiwan after the Nationalist government arrived.” The February 28 Incident is a collective nightmare for Taiwanese society. While the young generation of Taiwanese was pursuing the...
by Siyabonga Nkosi | Mar 5, 2019 | pair scribes
In a sense, tragedy and utopia are simply reflections of one another; that is, visions of utopia are so often born of a desire to escape the tragedies of the present. Conversely, to describe something as a tragedy – one that is traumatic, like a collective...
by stryke1 | 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...
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