Introduction to Postwar Taiwan Fiction Unit 13 The Chu Sisters: Love, Memories, and the City...

Introduction to Postwar Taiwan Fiction

Unit 13The Chu Sisters:

Love, Memories, and the City

Lecturer:

Richard Rong-bin Chen,

PhD of Comparative Literature.

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Chu Tien-wen (1956~)

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About Chu Tien-wen

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• Education

• In 1956, she was born in Taipei to Chu Hsi-ning and Liu Mu-sha [劉慕沙 ], a famous translator.

• Like Chen Ying-chen, she is a graduate of the Department of English, Tamkang University.

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• The theme of her early works

• In the early stage of literary career, her works repetitively focus on innocent youthfulness and the process of growing up, which is usually painstaking.

• Therefore, many of her best known works, like “The Story of Hsiao-pi” [〈小畢的故事〉 ] (1982) and “A Summer at Grandpa’s” [〈冬冬的假期〉 ] (1984), are with protagonists like school girls and boys or confused adolescents.

• “A City of Hot Summer” as a breakthrough

• For this reason, “A City of Hot Summer” [〈炎夏之都〉 ] (1986) has been considered by many as one of Chu Tien-wen’s pathbreakers which opened up a new world, the world of the adults, for her.

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Chu Tien-wen as a Screenwriter

• Besides being a short story writer, a novelist, and an essayist, Chu’s greatest achievements come from her screenplays. She is a regular collaborator of director Hou Hsiao-hsien (1947-), a pioneer and master in Taiwan’s New Cinema period.

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• A City of Sadness [悲情城市 ] (1989), her collaboration with Hou, was awarded with Leone d’Oro of the Venice Film Festival. The film was release in 1989, just two years away from the lift of the Martial Law, so it is among the pathbreakers of the films which try to deal with the theme of the 228 Incident.

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• Besides, Good Men, Good Women [《好男好女》 ] (1995), a film based on a story during the period of white terror and one of their most important collaborations, has earned Chu Tien-wen an Award for Best Screenplay in the 32nd Golden Horse Film Festival.

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“A City of Hot Summer”• (first published in 1986 in China Times)

• Chiayi – the Death

• Yeh – the Escape, the relationship between Lu and Yeh

• Panchiao – the Reality

• Chiayi – the Funeral

• Yen-yi – the Memory, and Characterization

• Yeh – the Reality: “He realizes that he is a very, very shameless man.” (p.37)

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Source: Chu Tien-wen. (1988, summer). Chinese penTaipei, Taiwan : Taipei Chinese Center, International P.E.N

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The Deaths—What do they mean?

• The Death of Chien Ah-shui

• The Death of the second brother-in-law

• The Elevator Scene

• The Bathroom Scene

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The Elevator Scene

• In the elevator, Lu suddenly was afraid that he might drop dead. “Didn’t the second brother cease to exist in an instant?” (p. 11-12)

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The Bathroom Scene

• “He always sits on the toilet to read the Emerald Weekly, then takes a shower, watching the water turning hot by going through the lit heater and flowing out from the shower head. Like his suspicion that he’ll drop dead in the elevator, he always wonders if he’ll be electrocuted someday.” (p. 16)

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• The story opens with an episode about Lu Ts’ung-chih’s first brother-in-law, who was mentally disabled (which probably had something to do with the death of his fellow serviceman, Chien Ah-shui), and how his second brother-in-law was killed by the first (p.1-4). It might be strange to start with this seemingly irrelevant episode.

• It is not until page 11 that the meaning of the episode is revealed, and it becomes clear through a careful reading of the following passage, which is used to describe Lu’s ride on the elevator up to Yeh’s apartment:

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The ride is very short, but also very long. When it’s short, he arrives in the wink of time when he’s barely startled by his ruddy, drunk face. When’s it’s long, he can think over his whole life up to this very moment, with all kinds of people and things. At this moment, he is even thinking, what will he do if the elevator suddenly falls apart and drops to the ground? (p.12)

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What he did not expect is that flashing into his mind are still Teh-mei and the kids. Moreover, the gentle yet bitter face of motrher-in-law also appears instantaneously. Suddenly he’s afraid that he’ll drop dead in the elevator. Didn’t the second younger brother cease to exist in an instant? (p.12)

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• Lu also suspected whether he would be electrocuted by the water heater in Yeh’s apartment. The implication behind these two trivialities, I think, can be roughly defined as some kind of “pre-midlife crisis.” When a man is no longer young, he inevitably starts to think about death, or the possibility of a sudden death.

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How does the story relate to the city?

• The title of this story is also interesting. Besides the fact that the Lu family lived in Panchiao and Yeh in Sungchiang Street, does the story have anything to do with Taipei?

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The Bleakness of the City Image

• After Lu gave Yeh five-thousand dollars for her birthday, he went out of the building and found there “was a high rise under construction across the street; the scaffold was covered with a greyish green net. Workers were soldering up high, the flames bursting and falling down, turning into sparks of fire in mid air and then dying out” (p.16).

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Another Example

• When Teh-mei was eight-month pregnant, they got married at the city hall. When he walked down the steps outside the city hall, the sky was steely grey, pressing on his eyebrows. The cheap cement ground was his future. He had no future; his life was over. . . . For a whole month he didn’t go home, didn’t see Teh-mei. (p. 33-34)

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• In the story, along with the development of the city itself, Lu Ts’ung-chih also got more involved in a highly commercialized Taipei, in which he was at first an electronics salesperson, and then a man running a cable business on his own.

• However, city life for a middle-aged middle-class man like Lu had its banality. His life became a routine: running business, meeting his mistress, reading tabloid magazines like the Emerald Weekly and the Mei-hwa Report, and going home to face a wife who was uninterested in sex and two kids who sometimes needed teaching and beating.

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Lu’s Spousal Relationship

• In Lu’s house, there’s an extension telephone, so his wife can always overhear the conversations between Lu and his various mistresses, including Yeh. But the narrator made a point that Teh-mei didn’t really care as long as Lu could bring enough money home.

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• And after Lu won the bid for the electrical cable project, Teh-mei got really excited and that night “they had the ‘ritual’ held once or twice a month, Teh-mei pushed up her gentle body toward him, which she almost never did. Though he didn’t exactly shed tears of gratitude, he was truly contended” (p. 24).

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Teh-mei• We can even debate over whether there

was still love between Lu and Teh-mei, who did not mind how many women Lu was having affairs with, as long as he brought enough money home.

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Lu and the Three Women in His Life

Yeh• What is the “agreed relationship” between

Lu and Yeh? It seems that they are not just a taxi dancer and her “regular client,” but their relationship ended abruptly after Lu saw Yeh going home with her another “client.”

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Yen-yi

“It’s so good to have a body, it’s so good to have a body.”

• Lu’s ex-girlfriend, Yen-yi, is in a way more significant a character than Yeh. It’s important to understand Yen-yi’s phrase: “It’s so good to have a body, it’s so good to have a body” (p.31-32), which is also the closing sentence of this story. Lu and Yen-yi made love all the time, which does not necessarily mean that they were both sexually aggressive; rather, it symbolizes their youthfulness and naivety.

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Yenyi vs. Teh-mei and Yeh

• While Yen-yi is a part of Lu’s past and his youth, both Yeh and Teh-mei stand for his physical decline and moral decadence. (For example, in the “anniversary episode,” Lu fell asleep when he was making love with Yeh.)

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Chu Tien-hsin (1958~)

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About Chu Tien-hsin

• Education and Marriage

• In 1958, she was born in Kaohsiung. She is the second daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and a graduate of the Department of History, NTU.

• Her husband, Hsieh Ts’ai-chun (with the penname “Donald” [唐諾 ]), a renowned literary and cultural critic in Taiwan, also graduated from the same department.

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• Chu Tien-hsin as a political activist

• Chu has been a political activist since the early 1990s. She campaigned for the membership of R.O.C. National Assembly in 1992, for the legislator’s position of Legislative Yuan in 1995.

• In 2006, after the corruption scandals of President Chen Shui-bian broke out, she joined the million-people campaign to depose Chen.

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• The main themes of her works

• As one of the most perceptive Taiwan writers on urban culture since the 1990s, we can see her attempts to create the dialogue between herself and the socio-political and cultural history of mankind. “History,” “memory,” and “time” are always the majors themes to be explored in her works of fiction.

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• Her technique of “Intertextuality”

• She always tries to connect her works with world literature and global culture. The Old Capital [古都 ] (1995), one of her most representative works, is a perfect example in the aspect.

• For this reason, it is important to read this collection as an intertext of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice (1913), Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1958), and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Old Capital [Koto in Japanese] (1962).

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“In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound” (first published in 1991 in China Times)The Features of Military Compounds in Taiwan• Alternative name: military dependents’ village [眷村 ]

• People from all provinces of Mainland China

• Divided among the different branches of the armed forces

• The people living there: for example, the boys were ambitious, though turned out to be criminals and taxi drivers

• Wholly different from the world outside the villages

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Treasure Hill [寶藏巖 ]

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Zhongzhen Village in Hsin-chu City (An air force military compound, and “zhongzhen” means allegiance.)

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The Song

• “Stand by Me” (1961)

• Ben E. King (1938~)

• Did you listen to the music as instructed?

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The Story and the Movie

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• The Story

• “The Body” (1982)

• Stephen King (1947~)

• Stand by Me (1986)

• Rob Reiner (1947~)

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All, right, dear reader, thanks for your cooperation. Let’s begin. Even if you haven’t seen the movie, I am sure that you would be fascinated by the tone of the little boy narrating the lyrics. On a long, boring afternoon, he tags behind the big boys as they go on an adventure to a faraway place, because rumor has it that there is a corpse of a man who died of unknown reasons there.(p.242)

The Parallel ParagraphsThe Original Narrative

Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. New York : Columbia University Press.


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The little boy is scared and excited and incredulous, yet he hopes to God that he will not piss in his pants the moment he actually sees what he wants to see. Thus he psyches himself up over and over again, and reminds himself vehemently: I’m not afraid, I’m not afraid, I’m not the least bit afraid, as long as you’re on my side, I sure as hell will not shed a single tear!(p.242)



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The Narrative in Chu’s Story

The sound fades into the distance, as a figure gradually becomes clear on the screen. I don’t know how to describe her, a big girl in puberty, or a little woman. Undaunted by the onset of her first menstruation, she is holding her breath-- totally oblivious to the music of the TV advertisement selling Queen Bee Dark Sugar Soap,(p.242-243) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi

and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. New York : Columbia University Press.


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intent only on pulling down the shirt tucked into her skirt, to make sure that her chest in the mirror is as flat as it was in elementary school. Feeling assured, she darts out of her house without glancing at the chewing gum commercial on TV, with sixteen-year-old Jenny Tesng wearing a miniskirt, dancing and singing , ”My love, my love, Yinglun heart-to-heart chewing gum… ”(p.242-243)



Intertextuality

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• The Function?

• How it works here?

• Does it work?

The Geographical and Political Description

She runs to the front gate of the compound. It is a sunny Saturday afternoon, and at the riverbank, ten to twenty boys, ranging from first graders to those who have reached the conscription age, have converged like a flock of birds. At the entrance of the compound, between two tall stone poles (nobody knows their exact function), hangs a red banner, with the words NUMBER X CANDIDATE XXX HAS THE FULL SUPPORT OF THIS COMPOUND. (p.243)

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Set against the bright blue sky, the banner flaps in the wind. It seems as if a banner would be hung there for a few days once every few years. About twenty years later, she will remember that scene in a flood of emotions, and for the first time in her life, vote for a political party different from that represented on the red banner.(p.243)

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The New Party (1993)

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• The New KMT Alliance (新國民黨連線 )

• Against President Lee Teng-hui’s political movement of bentuhua (本土化 ; localization)

• Pro-unification

• Took 21 seats in the legislators’ election in 1994

• Now influential only inside the pan-blue camp

• Li Qinghua, Wang Jianxuan, and Zhao Shaokang, the names mentioned in the short story, are among the founders of the party

About the Boys from the Military Compounds

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• A so-and-so’s big brother joined the mainlanders’ gang near the airport

• The female protagonist said her future husband “must come from a military compound”

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• In contrast to the steadfastness of the Taiwanese boys, the boys and girls from the military compounds were restless.

• The reason? They “never really regarded this piece of land as a place in which to take root in their lifetime” (p.248) “A land where none of your relatives are buried cannot be called home” (p.249). Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi




Where have all the flowers gone?

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That year, she moved away from the military compound to a new neighborhood at the edge of the city, where a few mainlanders, a lot of Taiwanese, and people from all walks of life converged. Suddenly, all her ties with the flock she identified with were severed; she was like a river that had merged into the ocean. In the years that were still stifling and closed, she started to strum and sing, “Where have all the flowers gone?” on the guitar. (p.247)



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She did not understand then that it was a famous antiwar song that had taken the outside world by storm only five or six years before; she only felt the lyrics touch a chord in her heart. Yes, where have all the boys gone? Where have all the boys from the military compound gone? (p.247)



The Answer Can Be Found LaterChu is among the few earliest writers who started to show their concern and sympathy with those second-generation male Mainlanders.

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I hear of someone wanting to publish an ad in the paper to seek out her childhood companions or to form a “military compound gang,” because she does not want to admit that the only “buddies” she had are those whose names constantly appear in the criminal reports in the papers. (p.261)



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She could recognize them at a glance, even though the papers scarcely revealed any personal information about them (such as so and so Taisheng, of Shandong descent, residing in Zuoying, Gaoxiong, or Gangshan, or Jiayi City, or Puxin, Yangmei, or Nanshijiao, Zhonghe City, or Liuchangli, Nanjichang… the military compounds from south to north, and east to west). You also dread coming across taxi drivers who speak with a heavy mainland accent, and who start to curse the Guomindang and Democratic Progressive Party as soon as the traffic comes to a halt. (p.261-262)



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You look at the strands of white hair on the back of the driver’s head, and you can immediately conclude that he belongs to the group of soldiers who, straight out of military school, proudly chose to serve the country, but who had no means of joining the job market after retirement in their thirties or forties…. Otherwise, brothers from the military compound, where have you gone? (p.262) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi



The Tomb-sweeping Day

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But this day would always pass by with no special ceremony. When night fell and they went home for dinner, they would find their parents acting strangely. Some would be burning paper money in their backyard, but because they did not know whether or not their relatives back home were alive,(p.248-249) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi



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they could only state ambiguously that the money was burned for ancestors of the X family. Therefore, their expressions were especially complicated—they dared not express grief; instead, their faces would be marked by memories made all the more lucid and poignant by the passage of time. (p.248-249) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi



The Home in the Mainland Became Mythologized, and Then Demythologized

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During the nights of gatherings before the advent of television, when there wasn’t much entertainment, the parents used to tell their children stories about their exodus to Taiwan, and life in their homeland on mainland China.

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Due to a complex set of emotions and the inflation caused by years of retelling, almost everyone’s parents came from families that owned a lot of land or money (Mao-mao’s family owned a farm five to six times as large as Taiwan), and every family used to have more than ten maids, a platoon of orderlies, and half a dozen chauffeurs. (p.249) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi



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The nuggets of gold discarded by each family during the flight from mainland China also increased with the passage of time. If added all together, the amount would surpass the amount of gold that Yu Hongjun moved to Taiwan for the Guomindang….

With such experiences and such a past, how could they bring themselves to live out their lives on this little island? (p.249)



The Mythology of the Mainland vs. the Down-to-Earth Life of the Taiwanese

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Later, her classmates would invite her to go to their house every year for the annual bai-bai. She gradually got accustomed to the abundant but unfamiliar dishes, and started to enjoy the open-air opera performances like the other kids, to laugh with them when they laughed, even though she didn’t understand the lines. Gradually, she came to understand vaguely why they were always so down to earth. (p.250)



Returning Is an Impossible Dream

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The mothers, like all other mothers who lived in poverty at that time, were busy making ends meet. All day long they wracked their brains thinking of ways to feed the family with their meager salary. If the mother was from the mainland she would have sold her last piece of jewelry by her tenth year in Taiwan, (p.257)



Returning Is an Impossible Dream

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and during Chinese New Year of that year she would have gritted her teeth and pulled out the cheungsam or padded jacket from the bottom of the trunk to make new clothes for the children. Without their husbands’ explanation of the Lei Zhen incident in September or any disclosure of additional military secrets, the mothers knew before anyone that they, like the political leaders in power, would never return to the mainland.(p.257)



Lei Zhen [雷震 ] (1897~1979)

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Lei Zhen (1897~1979)

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• Established Free China in Shanghai in 1949

• Used to be a close comrade of Chiang Kai-shek

• Attacked KMT’s dictatorship, which was implemented with the excuse of “Fight Back to the Mainland”

• After advocating the idea of an opposition party, he was arrested and sentenced to ten years in the prison in 1960

The Mothers

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• The mothers in the air force compound were the most westernized.

• The mothers from the army compound were conservative and honest.

• The mothers in the navy compound loved to play mahjong, and many of them were psychotic.

• The mothers in the military police compound were mostly Taiwanese, and young and sometime still childless.(p.258)

• The mothers in the military intelligence compound had to live with a widow mentality.(p.258-259)





The Marriage of a Mainlander Woman and Taiwanese Man

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• The Mainlander girl had to deal with Taiwanese male chauvinism, and fought with them to defense KMT. But Chu tried to explain why the marriage was possible in the first place.

Therefore, when you left home to go to college or to start working, you were naturally attracted by the local boys who were quiet, conservative, and down to earth, in comparison to the boys from your compound. (p.261)



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Even though some local families were worse off economically than those in the military compound, and the local boys seemed to be far less ambitious than the boys from the compound, who had grandiose visions of China and the world, the sense of stability and the many surprising attitudes of the local boys all opened a new window, bringing in a fresh breeze to your suffocating life. However, many years later, in careful retrospection, you would find out that your sense of suffocation did not come entirely from life in the military compound.(p.261)



What did Chu try to tell?

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• The specificity of military compound villages.

• How the people from military compounds were unfitted into Taiwan society.

• How they had a contradictory attitude toward KMT.

• The relationship between the country and its people.

Unfitted into Society

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Of course, you feel indignant when your local Taiwanese husband diverts toward you the anger he feels after reading in the paper about privileged second-generation mainlanders such as Li Qinghua and James Soong. As you think back on your life, you cannot find a shred of privilege, except for the period of time when Mandarin was promoted and Taiwanese was banned ; (p.262) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi



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You were exempt from any form of physical punishment, humiliation, or discrimination (many years later your husband would still fly into a rage at the mention of this), simply because you had no way of offending the taboo. Very soon, in a matter of years, you all had to pay for this policy. A majority of your buddies, who could not make it into government agencies and who didn’t go to military school, would be turned down by the managers of private and small companies because they could not speak or understand Taiwanese.(p.262-263) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei

Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. New York : Columbia University Press.


Contradictory Attitude

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So you are indignant at being classified as belonging to the privileged group; you also have a difficult time accepting the injustice of being equated with the Guomindang simply because your father is a mainlander. Rather than saying that you grew up drinking the thin and diluted milk of the Guomindang (which is the way your husband puts it when he jeers at you), you actually feel that your relationship with the party is more like that of an estranged couple who should have gotten a divorce long ago.(p.263)



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Sometimes you hate the party more than your husband hates it, because within you are feelings of betrayal and desertion. Even though you were never formally inducted into the party, you cannot help but jump to its defense when you hear people (who do not bear the political burden of the GMD) attack it vehemently. As you seek out loopholes in your opponent’s speech,(p.263)



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you also wish to God that you could spill your guts and criticize the party without feeling guilty.

It’s not that you don’t have the chance to do so. Remember the last time you went home to your mother’s alone with your kid? Didn’t you criticize the Guomindang at the dinner table while watching the evening new? (p.264)



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Only because no one (such as your husband) was standing to your left (politically speaking) could you happily play the role of an unburdened oppositionist, resting assured that someone to your right (your father) would always stand up to defend this party that you love and hate, that you should have separated from years ago. (p.264)



How KMT Treated the Mainlanders, Who Later Realized That They Were In-between

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You might not know that in the still of night when the elderly have trouble sleeping, your fathers also cannot help but admit they wish they were in your shoes. How your father wishes that one day he may be able to be like you and to holler at the top of his lungs, “ Damn you motherfucker GMD! You tricked us into coming to this island and lied to us for forty years.”(p.264) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi and David

Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. New York : Columbia University Press.


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It was only until the moment we returned to the mainland to visit relatives that we found out that in the eyes of our remaining relatives, we were Taiwan citizens. Taiwanese, though on the island where we have lived for forty years we are constantly referred to as “You mainlanders.” Thus, those who are accustomed to reading their children bedtime stories will find out sooner or later, in Aesop’s fables, that they resemble the bat who is neither bird nor beast, a being with no identity.(p.264) Source: Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). Pang-yuan Chi and David

Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. New York : Columbia University Press.


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In the elevator, Lu suddenly was …second brother cease to exist in an instant

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“He always sits on the toilet to read …wonders if he’ll be electrocuted someday.”


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The ride is very short, but also very long. When it’s …apart and drops to the ground?


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What he did not expect is that flashing into his mind …brother cease to exist in an instant?


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When Teh-mei was eight-month …month he didn’t go home, didn’t see Teh-mei.


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The little boy is scared and excited and …as hell will not shed a single tear!

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (p.242) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act.

43The sound fades into the distance, …Queen Bee Dark Sugar Soap

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (pp.242-243) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act.

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intent only on pulling down the shirt …, Yinglun heart-to-heart chewing gum…


46

She runs to the front gate of the …SUPPORT OF THIS COMPOUND.


47Set against the …represented on the red banner.


50

They “never really regarded this piece of …to take root in their lifetime”


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50

A land where none of your relatives are buried cannot be called home”


51

That year, she moved away from the military …gone?” on the guitar.


52

She did not understand then that it was …the military compound gone?


53 I hear of someone wanting …criminal reports in the papers.


54

She could recognize them at a glance, even …the traffic comes to a halt.


55

You look at the strands of white …compound, where have you gone?


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But this day would always pass by with no …their relatives back home were alive,


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they could only state ambiguously that the money …poignant by the passage of time.

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (p.248-249) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act.

59Due to a complex set of …half a dozen chauffeurs.


60The nuggets of gold discarded …lives on this little island?


61Later, her classmates would invite …always

so down to earth.


62The mothers, like all other mothers …her tenth year in Taiwan,


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and during Chinese New Year of that …power, would never return to the mainland


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The mothers in the military police …and young and sometime still childless.


66The mothers in the military … to live with a widow mentality


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Therefore, when you left home to go to …the boys from your compound.


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Even though some local families were worse …life in the military compound

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (p.261) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act. 84


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Of course, you feel indignant …promoted and Taiwanese was banned ;


71

You were exempt from any form of physical …speak or understand Taiwanese.


72

So you are indignant at being classified as …should have gotten a divorce long ago.


73Sometimes you hate the party more than your …your opponent’s speech


74 you also wish to God that … while watching the evening new?


75

Only because no one …, should have separated from years ago.


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You might not know that in the still of night when the elderly have …to us for forty years.”

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (p.264) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of:•Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act.

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It was only until the moment …who is neither bird nor beast, a being with no identity.

Chu Tien-hsin. (2003). In Remembrance of My Buddies from the Military Compound. Pang-yuan Chi and David Der-wei Wang (Eds.), The Last of the Whampoa breed [electronic resource] : stories of Chinese diaspora. (p.264) New York : Columbia University Press. It is used subject to the fair use doctrine of:•Article 52 & 65 of Taiwan Copyright Act.

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