Description:The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries passing on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars. Thus memories of the lost past are a motif of Taiwanese literature and a powerful approach for writers to deal with issues inconvenient to confront face to face. These issues include regime transfer, political oppression, beliefs, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding and discrimination. All these can be found in these two marvelous short stories.Lin's ABC Doggie Bites Piggie is the love story of Marva, a young woman living during the time of regime handover in the 1940s. Luo's Nomad is an urban fantasy of today's Taipei.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tastes of Nostalgia: Short stories by taiwanese writers. To get started finding Tastes of Nostalgia: Short stories by taiwanese writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
72
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Serenity International
Release
2020
ISBN
9869639321
Tastes of Nostalgia: Short stories by taiwanese writers
Description: The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries passing on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars. Thus memories of the lost past are a motif of Taiwanese literature and a powerful approach for writers to deal with issues inconvenient to confront face to face. These issues include regime transfer, political oppression, beliefs, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding and discrimination. All these can be found in these two marvelous short stories.Lin's ABC Doggie Bites Piggie is the love story of Marva, a young woman living during the time of regime handover in the 1940s. Luo's Nomad is an urban fantasy of today's Taipei.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Tastes of Nostalgia: Short stories by taiwanese writers. To get started finding Tastes of Nostalgia: Short stories by taiwanese writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.