{"id":1966,"date":"2019-02-16T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2019-02-16T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T22:38:03","slug":"2-19-taipei-and-kyoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/2019\/02\/16\/2-19-taipei-and-kyoto\/","title":{"rendered":"2\/19 Taipei and Kyoto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CHU T\u2019ien-hsin, \u201cThe Old Capital\u201d<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t
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  1. p.135 the bridge at Shijo where he had first met \"Chieko's Naeko\" or \"Naeko's Chieko\"<\/em>\n
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    • lovers who seemed to never leave<\/li>\n
    • You told your daughter that southern China was just like that. When had you ever been in southern China?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • p.138 lonely<\/em>\n
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      • A<\/li>\n
      • daughter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • p.141 Maruyama Park<\/em>\n
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        • Yuanshan - you<\/li>\n
        • Maruyama - daughter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
        • p.144 kimono cloth and obis<\/em>\n
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          • And that wasn't all that had disappeared.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • p.148 pine<\/em>\n
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            • the century-old nightshade trees vs. widening the street<\/li>\n
            • \"Tadaima, I'm back\" vs. eat and run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
            • p.157 Daimon-ji bonfires<\/em>\n
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              • you could watch the bonfire on Daimon-ji<\/li>\n
              • 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<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
              • p.162 The small shrine, however, had not changed. It was even described even in the Tale of Genji.<\/em>\n
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                • If a little time and a little memory remained before you died and you could choose where to go, like so many people who are anxious to leave a hospital and return to a familiar place, usually their home, you'd likely choose this place.<\/li>\n
                • Why wasn't it the city you came from?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                • p.179 The parents I have now love me very much. I don't have any desire to look for my real mother and father.<\/em>\n
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                  • why would you be willing to sit at the Seir\u014d-ji for a whole afternoon doing nothing, while you couldn't wait to flee the Temple of Benevolence, which you had to walk by every day?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
                  • p.186 Chieko watched as her twin sister Naeko walked way. Naeko did not look back.<\/em>\n
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                    • The plan would depart at ten in the morning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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                      CHUA and YAMAMOTO, \u201cReview - The Old Capital by Yasunari Kawabata\u201d<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t
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                      1. Kyoto vs. Tokyo<\/li>\n
                      2. past identity vs. future identity<\/li>\n
                      3. Chieko vs. her twin sister<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>
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                        Lingchei CHEN, \u201cMapping Identity in a Postcolonial City\u201d<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t
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                        1. Chinese, Japanese, American<\/li>\n
                        2. historical discontinuity, cultural displacement<\/li>\n
                        3. the 1895-1945 Japanese colonial rule<\/li>\n
                        4. the 1949 exodus from China to Taiwan, internal colonization of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist (Guomindang\/Kuomintang or KMT) government, the total erasure of Taiwan's history, the pan-Chinese identity<\/li>\n
                        5. the rapidly growing capitalism since the 1960s<\/li>\n
                        6. Taiwanese [benshengren<\/em>] vs. Chinese mainlander [waishengren<\/em>]<\/li>\n
                        7. Li Denghui [Lee Teng-hui]<\/li>\n
                        8. Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)<\/li>\n
                        9. what is not there, where the lack is<\/li>\n
                        10. walk<\/li>\n
                        11. the aborigines, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, French, Japanese<\/li>\n
                        12. twice decolonized: 1662 Koxinga and 1945 China<\/li>\n
                        13. 1987 lifting of martial law<\/li>\n
                        14. the twin sisters\/friends\/cities<\/li>\n
                        15. the rapid destruction of Taipei's natural environment by both the KMT government and native Taiwanese politicians<\/li>\n
                        16. Kawabata's Kyoto: symbol of history and antiquity<\/li>\n
                        17. the bad blood between China and Japan<\/li>\n
                        18. mother: translator of modern Japanese literature<\/li>\n
                        19. her (and her sister's) mentor Hu Lancheng<\/li>\n
                        20. colonial history: alluring and mystifying, untaught and unexperienced<\/li>\n
                        21. the lack of a coherent and continuous historical and cultural heritage<\/li>\n
                        22. the legends on the map, the abstract frame<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/mtoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}