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Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire-and with the many tendons in between"--
Author
Series
Boy from Clearwater volume 1
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Qingshui, recounts a carefree childhood despite the Japanese occupation: growing up happily with the company of nursery rhymes and picture books on Qingshui Street. As war emerges Tsai's memories shift to military parades, air raids, and watching others face conscription into the army. It seems no one can escape. After the war, the book-loving teenager tries hard to learn Mandarin and...
6) Taiwan
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Taiwan is a place filled with beautiful landscapes, unique architecture, rugged mountains, and modern cities. While it officially became Taiwan in 1949, the island has existed for thousands of years. From its days as a Portuguese colony to its historic conflicts and more recent struggles with China, many dramatic events have shaped Taiwan into what it is today. Through the use of detailed photographs, fact boxes, and sidebars, readers meet the people...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Multiple
Description
During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
" ... In this eloquent autobiography, the noted scholar, writer, and teacher Chi Pang-yuan recounts her youth in mainland China and adulthood in Taiwan. Chi's remarkable life, told in rich and striking detail, humanizes the eventful and turbulent times in which she lived. The Great Flowing River begins as a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of China's war with Japan. Chi depicts her childhood in pre-occupation Manchuria and gives an eyewitness...
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