I miss my brothers in the military dependents' village.

Long before the public outcry began, Zhu Tianxin used her literary voice to reverse the tide of change; this is a work that freezes time for the city's misfits. In its bland, harsh, and ungracious writing style, we see Zhu Tianxin's most genuine and persistent affection.
This is a collection of short stories. "My Friend Ariza" depicts the "enlightenment" and devastation of a seemingly overly sentimental middle-aged man; "Once Upon a Time, There Was Urashima Taro" sympathetically pierces the religious myths and self-hypnosis of a political martyr, and the "possibility" intertwined with history and literature has brought Zhu Tianxin unprecedented criticism; "Chronicles of Premonition" depicts a group of "prophets" who cannot lose their memories and face the impermanence of life and death, making the old soul a synonym for Zhu Tianxin; "The Story of the Kangaroos" writes a moving story for a young mother who has nowhere to speak and is lonely; "The Story of the Butterflies in the Spring Breeze" is a subtle exploration of the descendants of Dionysus hidden in the kingdom of Apollo; and "Thinking of My Brothers in the Military Dependents' Village" leaves an unquestioned oral history record of a group scattered in the city and faded in memory.
When faith gradually degenerates into dogma, when so-called choices can only be tested by a single standard of truth, and when literature is almost universally ignored for its most important value, we must not forget that Zhu Tianxin once wrote about Taiwan with such a pen and courage.

2002-06-12

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