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“Another World” is Beautifully Animated But Stumbles on Its Plot

EnglishFilm
··1 min read
While well-animated, Hong Kong animated film Another World ultimately stumbles due to its hackneyed plot and setting. Another World follows Gudo, a childlike spiritual guide who guides deceased human souls to reincarnation. Human souls, if they become corrupted by hate and anger, may instead turn into wraiths–demonic monstrosities that are unable to reincarnate Read More

白色恐怖的新史料：傳奇女伶 高菊花

ChineseFilm
··1 min read
高菊花（Paicu Yata'uyungana），作家兼音樂家高一生（Uongʉ'e Yata'uyungana）之女，是戰後台灣的音樂明星。她也是一位才華洋溢的學者，曾獲得獎學金進入哥倫比亞大學深造。 1952年，她的父親因政治活動被捕，1953年被處死。自此，高菊花背負著沉重的政治烙印，一直被懷疑從事顛覆性政治活動，並被調查。她也承擔起照顧弟妹的重任，只好放棄獎學金。出於對自身生命和政治後果的擔憂，高菊花從未錄製過任何音樂作品，她昔日的明星記錄也僅限於照片和報紙報導。 Read More

Why Are Tankies So Upset About Taiwan Travelogue?

BooksEnglishLife
··2 min read
Online Chinese nationalists, a number of whom see themselves as on the left, are having a moment about Taiwan Travelogue. Taiwan Travelogue recently made history as the first Mandarin language novel, as well as the first Taiwanese novel, to win the International Booker Prize Read More

Review: La Paloma

EnglishFilm
··3 min read
Gao Juhua (高菊花, Paicu Yata'uyungana), the daughter of the writer and musician Gao Yisheng (高一生Uongʉ'e Yata'uyungana), was a musical star in Taiwan in the postwar period. She was also an accomplished scholar who received a scholarship to attend Columbia University. Her father was arrested in 1952 for his political activism and executed in 1953. Since then, Gao had a mark on her back, always being suspected and under investigation for subversive political activities. Gao also took on the responsibility of taking care of her siblings and had to give up the scholarship. Fearing for her life and political repercussions, Gao never recorded music, and the only records of her being a star at the time were photographs and newspaper articles Read More

Why Such Haste to Cook and Eat Me, China?

EnglishLife
··10 min read
Cao Zhi, a talented poet in the third century, is the younger brother of the king, Cao Pi. Jealous of his gift and suspicious of his threat to the throne, Cao Pi commands his kid brother to extemporize, after taking but seven paces, a poem on the subject of brethren, both as keeper and, implicitly, killer, without ever mentioning brothers in the poem, lest he be punished by death. This encapsulates the tension across the Taiwan Strait, where the well-wrought prosperity of the island may be peeing and shitting his pants while pleading for peace with the big brother. Read More

“Zero Day Attack” is in Final Evaluation a Mixed Bag

EnglishFilm
··2 min read
Zero Day Attack ultimately proves more along the lines of speculative fiction, rather than a prescient vision of what an invasion scenario for Taiwan might look like. If the series has some insightful, even moving episodes, others are far less successful. In this sense, the series is, in final evaluation, something of a mixed bag Read More
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