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3/19 Formosa Revisited
See my 2/7 Formosa keywords:https://pages.stolaf.edu/mtoc/2019/02/05/2-7-formosa/ the foreign-influenced Modernist workNativist literary debate in 1977 and 1978the expulsion from the United Nations in 1971Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of...
DaDaocheng
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 “Retrocession”,...
Dadaocheng
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...
3/5 Stadiums
Read this webpage. a Meiji-era import to Japanthe Japanese empirethe Japanese spiritthe Chinese spiritthe Taiwanese government - 2000 election of Chen Shui-bianglobal processes of colonialism, imperialism, the cold war, and capitalismChina's riseTaiwan...
Tamsui (Evy and Dorie)
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...
Tamsui
CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” Yangtze River vs. Tamsui River The Yangtze River that the writer mentions here is one of the most typical rivers in mainland China. However, Tamsui River is located in the northern Taipei and it is different from the Yangtze River...
2/28 Dadaocheng
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 was taken up by food...
Military Family Villages
The war against Japan and the civil war are the driving factors that influence the characters's lives. Because of their military association, the characters live in military villages like East Benevolence Village for the families of those who serve in the Republic of...
Military Family Villages
Classroom discussion YU Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" PAI Hsien-yung, "A Touch of Green" SU Weizhen, "The End of the Military Family Village" CHU T’ien-hsin, “The Old Capital” The Old Capital title has layers of meaning behind it. Kyoto, once the capital...
2/26 Tamsui
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 view, even though neither of you had ever...
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