Taipei 101 Reflections, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_vertical_timeline admin_label=”Timeline – Vertical” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” background_image=”https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/946\/2017\/03\/500_F_136268028_GLRHDDU4mtxO3zBxp76vBD4oFsGHqm7w.jpg” line_color=”#0c71c3″] [et_pb_vertical_timeline_item title=”Stop 1″ use_read_more=”off” animation=”off” text_font_select=”default” text_font=”||||” headings_font_select=”default” headings_font=”||||” use_border_color=”off” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n
\u201cNo need to go ashore, no need to shave your head, no need to change your clothing style; sending tribute and being a royal subject will suffice\u201d (E135).
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\u201cYou worried that A, given the shortness of her visit, would not be able to see the cherry blossoms –oh god, you might see her when you got back to the hotel that night. You hoped she wouldn\u2019t lard her speech with English, like so many people who had been out of the country far too long, because that would only increase the tension in your exchanges. You also hoped she wouldn\u2019t be dressed sloppily and attract attention, like most Americans. Of course you couldn\u2019t imagine A in stuffy clothes like a suit or jacket and silk scarf.\u201d (E162-163)<\/p>\n
\u201c\u4f60\u4e0d\u7981\u62c5\u5fc3A\u77ed\u77ed\u7684\u5047\u671f\u4f1a\u7b49\u4e0d\u5230\u6a31\u82b1\u6b63\u7b11\u2014\u2014\u5929\u554a\u4f60\u665a\u4e0a\u56de\u65c5\u9986\u53ef\u80fd\u5c31\u4f1a\u770b\u5230A\u4f60\u4f46\u613f\u5979\u4e0d\u4f1a\u50cf\u5f88\u591a\u53bb\u56fd\u591a\u5e74\u7684\u4eba\u4e00\u6837\u6ee1\u53e3\u82f1\u6587\uff0c\u90a3\u6837\u4f1a\u589e\u52a0\u4f60\u4eec\u6c9f\u901a\u7684\u7d27\u5f20\u5ea6\uff0c\u4f60\u4e5f\u5e0c\u671bA\u4e0d\u8981\u50cf\u7f8e\u56fd\u4eba\u90a3\u6837\u4e0d\u4fee\u8fb9\u5e45\u5f15\u4eba\u6ce8\u76ee\uff0c\u5f53\u7136\u4f60\u4e0d\u80fd\u60f3\u8c61A\u7a7f\u5f97\u89c4\u89c4\u77e9\u77e9\u4f8b\u5982\u897f\u88c5\u5f0f\u5916\u5957\u7cfb\u4e1d\u5dfe\u4ec0\u4e48\u7684\u201d (S169)<\/p>\n
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\u201cJapan tore down the city wall ten years after the Qing built it. The Japanese were no different from the Manchu Qing court: if it wasn\u2019t \u201cperhaps we should level the place,\u201d it was \u201csell Taiwan for a billion dollars.\u201d 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.\u201d (E147)
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\u201cIf not for the fire caused by a Japanese fighter plane shot down toward the end of the war, the ruined Taiwan Shrine would have been a lot of like the Yasaka Shrine, which you visited often. In Governor-General Nogi\u2019s time, the Imperial Council decided, on advisement, to build the shrine in Taipei, Taiwan\u2019s control center. Tainan and Keelung had both been considered. The reason for the final decision was: if the ancient city of Taipei was to be considered the site of the imperial residence, then the Keelung River would be the equivalent of the Kamo-gawa and Jiantan Hill would be Higashi-yama, making the geographical location of the Taipei Basin a simulacrum of Kyoto.\u201d (E203)
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“The only difficult decision was where to take your afternoon tea–Fauchon, in the basement level of Takashi-maya, or Rakusho, by the entrance to Kokaiji Temple. The afternoon tea at Fauchon–a scone and a cup of house blend coffee or black tea–cost 500 yen, a price that had remained the same for years, whether the value of the yen appreciated dramatically or dropped precipitously. You deeply missed the seats, so few that there was usually a long line. You\u2019d often see neatly dressed old couples, in their seventies at least, taking their meals solemnly, as if conducting a ritual of sorts. They talked in whispers and did not look or act like the average Japanese. You were pretty sure they were probably Deng Xiaoping\u2019s classmates when he studied in France.” (E135)
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\u201cOccasionally, when one of A\u2019s male friends had some money from a tutoring job or had been paid by a magazine for photos, he invited the two of you to Banyan Gardens, where you ordered a bottle of beer and a plate of stir-fried little shellfish, and talked about the national shame of the nearby Dutch garrison, called the Red Hair building, until you choked on your own words. The price of coffee in Banyan Gardens had spiked. After silently calculating the exchange rate, you realized it was more expensive than in any other country (except for the Blue Mountain coffee in the Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), but you needed to sit a while to put your colonial map in order.\u201d\u00a0(E 205-206)
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Our theme quote is excerpted from a Qing Dynasty letter to the ruler of Taiwan at the time, Zheng Jing. These words demonstrate the Qing dynasty’s wish to control Taiwan, though the letter claims that Qing rulers will not force the residents of Taiwan to change. Even though Zheng Jing was less powerful by that time, more like a \u201cshadow\u201d in a mirror, he resists to be a shadow that changes with the Qing government. This quote plays a part in drawing the readers\u2019 attention toward change. Observing the physical and emotional changes of the characters throughout the novel emphasizes the main character\u2019s negative perception of change. Her strong emotional response to change allows us to observe how she feels like an outsider whenever places or friends change, and how she feels at home where things remain constant. Because of her contrasting experiences in the \u201ctwin\u201d cities of Taipei and Tokyo, and the contrasts between You and A, we interpret this quote as drawing the reader\u2019s attention to mirror images.<\/p>\n
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Our narrator perceives change as negative, which she conveys in this quote. The bloom of the cherry blossoms signifies the narrator\u2019s affinity for Japan. The narrator\u2019s fear that A may not make it in time to see the cherry blossoms shows her desire to share her love of Japan with A. However, just as A may not see the changing of the seasons through the cherry blossoms\u2019 bloom in Kyoto, she may not be able see the changes that have occurred within herself. When A seems unlikely to show up, the narrator calls negative attention to changes she expects to see in A, such as English speech peppered into her Mandarin, and a sloppy American clothing style. This distaste seems to convey our narrator\u2019s deeper distaste for change.<\/p>\n
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No matter who controls the island, Taipei is constantly changing. A good example is how the Qing dynasty built the wall around the city, and then the Japanese destroyed it 10 years later. Under Japanese colonization, Taipei\u2019s roads and the vegetation were also redesigned for a \u201csouthern flavor\u201d. This can be a great example of how each group that has control over Taipei leaves their mark.<\/p>\n
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The word simulacrum is translated from the Chinese edition \u201c\u76f8\u4eff\u4f5b,\u201d which means mutual similarity. However, the word simulacrum has an implication of inferiority toward that which is similar to something else; such things are viewed as imitations that cannot possibly match the original. The translator\u2019s choice of the word simulacrum aligns Taipei with a sense of inferiority, emphasized by the destroyed Taiwan Shrine, and the narrator\u2019s preference for the unchanging city of Kyoto.<\/p>\n
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The price of afternoon tea never changes due to inflation or deflation, The cozy environment of the cafe and customers\u2019 clothing style also have not changed for years; the unchanged afternoon tea shop indicates that Kyoto has relatively stay the same. The quote not only reflects how the author cherishes her memories of Kyoto, but shows her love toward unchanged things.<\/p>\n
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Unlike the reasonably priced coffee shop in Kyoto, the Banyan Gardens coffee is extremely expensive, which the narrator observes silently. She does not have time to express her discontent, but it contrasts with previous experiences to emphasize Taipei\u2019s inferiority in terms of affordability, as well its excessive\u00a0tendency toward change.<\/p>\n
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