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A reading route prepared by Leah Suffern and Hsiang-Lin Shih<\/p>\n

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When exploring intersections between environmental and literary studies, we found the theme of the nightshade trees. The trees are so important to “You” the narrator and the city that they reappear throughout the novella.<\/p>\n

While some passages obviously tell You’s memory of the nightshade trees in the high school years, others are not. In particular, our Stop Zero passage is found last. It is not about the trees on Aiguo West Road (later on Dadu Road), but about THE NIGHTSHADE TREE. Long before You tells personal memory of the nightshade trees, this passage (in classical Chinese) is singled out from the histories, the legends, the collective memories. We realize how it prepares us for a more intimate story so that when we read the latter, we feel familiar with the tree. Thus we also set this passage up as the starting point of our reading route.<\/p>\n

Map:\u00a0\u5927\u81fa\u5317\u9ce5\u77b0\u5716 by \u5927\u7aaa\u56db\u90ce<\/a><\/p>\n

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Page 127. A tree called the nightshade was so tall it blocked out the sun, so big it required several linked arms to encircle its trunk. It grew by the lakeshore. A Dutchman was rumored to have stuck his sword into the tree, which grew around it; that’s how the place got its name, Jiantan\u2014Sword Lake.<\/p>\n

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The scientific name of the nightshade tree is\u00a0Bisxhofia javanica<\/em> Blume. The trunk is reddish, and thus it is also called red cedar:<\/p>\n

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Section 1<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The first section of our reading route is\u00a0You’s good memories of the nightshade trees. The memories began with, ironically, destruction. It was\u00a0the Japanese government’s tearing down of a Chinese\u00a0city wall, and it was recalled\u00a0when You talked about\u00a0Beishihu where the bricks of the wall were made. On the map we mark what was the location of southern city wall but later a green wall of the nightshade trees. To its north and south we also mark the all-girls high school (today’s Taipei First Girl’s High School) and the all-boys high school (today’s Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School).<\/p>\n

Map on the left: a close-up of\u00a0\u5927\u81fa\u5317\u9ce5\u77b0\u5716 by \u5927\u7aaa\u56db\u90ce (published by \u5357\u5929\u66f8\u5c40)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Page 147a. They dissembled the bricks and tiles laboriously fired in Beishihu and built three-lane streets, along which were planted nightshade trees, which were popular all over the island, and betel palms and coconut trees to give them a southern flavor, 150 of them on Aiguo (East)[West] Road and 100 on Xinyi Road.<\/p>\n

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Page 147b. Half a century later, the nightshades had become a green wall, the demarcation line where your all-girls high school made peace with one of the all-boys high schools. You and A often arranged to meet boys there. The wide safety island was paved with red bricks; white wrought-iron benches encircled the tree trunks, and the streetlights, no matter how bright, could not penetrate the dense shadows from the nightshade trees.<\/p>\n

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The three-lane streets indeed were good places for dating. A 1933 Taiwanese song \u6708\u591c\u6101 sings about this. Here is a postcard of the southern three-lane street:<\/p>\n

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Image Source: \u81fa\u7063\u8a18\u61b6<\/a><\/p>\n

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The demarcation line in Chinese is \u695a\u6cb3\u6c49\u754c, which literally means “the river of Chu, border of Han.” It is known to refer to the line between the sides on the board of Chinese chess \u8c61\u68cb.<\/p>\n

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Section 2<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Our reading route dramatically turns here: The nightshade trees suddenly disappeared as did every good memory. The green wall seems to remain\u00a0there on the World Imagery ArcGIS Esri map, but the trees are replaced by the camphor trees \u6a1f\u6811, scientific name\u00a0Cinnamomum camphora.<\/p>\n

Map on the left: a close-up of\u00a0\u5927\u81fa\u5317\u9ce5\u77b0\u5716 by \u5927\u7aaa\u56db\u90ce (published by \u5357\u5929\u66f8\u5c40)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Page 149. When you walked by your green wall one day you discovered\u2014oh my god\u2014the century-old night-shade trees had disappeared overnight, all for the ostensibly justifiable reason of widening the street. You were so grief-stricken, so distressed, you felt as if you\u2019d lost your best friend.<\/p>\n

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Page 152. Except for the one route that was indispensable in your daily life, you had become reluctant to roam, afraid of discovering more things like the disappearance of a line of century-old nightshade trees.<\/p>\n

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The trees on today’s Aiguo West Road are\u00a0camphor trees \u6a1f\u6811, scientific name\u00a0Cinnamomum camphora\u00a0<\/em>(L.) Presl. The close-up image shows their typical trunk.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Leah Suffern<\/p>\n

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Section 3<\/strong><\/h1>\n

On our trip we followed the story route to visit Dadu Road where the nightshade trees were\u00a0said to be transplanted to. We did not find them, but Shih laoshi\u2019s parents in Taiwan found them well. They were not as strong as THE NIGHTSHADE TREE in our Stop Zero passage, which “required several linked arms to encircle its trunk.” However, they were much better than what “You” saw. If we did not read the novella, we would\u00a0not have known where they were from and what memories they shared, just as how we forgot what happened to the generation of our grandparents.<\/p>\n

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Page 161. But you never brought up the past, for that was too much like the nightshade and sweet gum trees, which had been either transplanted or taken down.<\/p>\n

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Page 204. You were hoping that the bus would take the Dadu Route, for the guidebook said that the hundred-year-old nightshade trees on the western line of the Sansen-d\u014d had all been transplanted to Dadu Road.<\/p>\n

Page 205. Could the eucalyptus trees along the highway also have been transplanted to Dadu Road?<\/p>\n

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Page 209. You opted for an express bus, expecting it to take Dadu Road, for you were determined to see the old nightshade trees that had sheltered you girls all those nights when you were sixteen and seventeen and had never once laughed after listening to all the silly things you said to them. If those old trees were still there, then many other things would still be around. It did not matter whether or not you saw them, such as A, such as the Old Moriyoshi Tofu shop by Seiry\u014d-ji, such as the white oaks imprinted on the heart of Thoreau before his death. The bus passed Dadu Road, driven by yet another drunk driver similarly focused on pocketing bus fares. Given that there were no bus stops or stoplights on Dadu Road, at that speed, if the bus had had wings it would have soon been airborne. You sped alongs, spotting old trees that looked like injured veterans, the ends of their amputated limbs wrapped in straw, as if bandaged. The guidebook said they were transplanted in the third year of the Heisei era, but why did they show no signs of putting down roots and sticking around? Except for a very few that had small cluster of green leaves, most had turned into specimens and models, like the skeleton under the coptis tree by Red Tower.<\/p>\n

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Page 211. Oh no, has even Guo Yimei, next door, been moved to Dadu Road?<\/p>\n

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The nightshade green wall on\u00a0Dadu Road:<\/p>\n

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The third year of the Heisei era is 1991. Japanese era in Taiwan ended in 1945. “You” used the Japanese era name Heisei because “You” was reading a Japanese guidebook.<\/p>\n

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Guo Yimei was a shop in Dadaocheng area. We could not find it either when we visited Dadaocheng. Has it been undergoing a renovation since “You” visited there?<\/p>\n

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