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Wind Blows, Rice Flowers Fragrant on Both Shores: A Mainlander's Taiwan Memories
Wind Blows, Rice Flowers Fragrant on Both Shores: A Mainlander's Taiwan Memories
Huang Yachun
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About Book
"That was the era when mainlanders were forced to wander Taiwan, yearning for home but seeing no path back. They drifted on the isolated island, their hearts in their homeland. This feeling, like trying to cut water with a knife only to make it flow faster, could only be silently sought out on the tip of the tongue in those tumultuous times. Slowly sipping and savoring the familiar memories from the fragrance of tea to the scent of rice, they found solace in the ingrained earthy aroma within their genetic make-up."
The author, a first-generation mainlander born in Taiwan, uses the scents of rice and delicious food in this book to evoke her deep affection for the land that nurtured her, her gratitude and remembrance for the parents and elders who painstakingly shielded their children from hardship during turbulent times. More than that, it is an adult's rediscovery of history, a history she was unknowingly a part of during her naive past. From her uncle-in-law, a writer and publisher who perished in the Straits with the Taiping ferry, to the experiences of General Lin Wen-kui, the Chinese representative of the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, who took over as Air Force Commander of the Taipei war zone upon Japan's surrender, and later served as the head of intelligence under General Sun Li-jen's army headquarters, to her father's intergenerational friendship with Mr. George Yeh—these and other accounts add a profound sense of history to this booklet brimming with personal memories.
The author, a first-generation mainlander born in Taiwan, uses the scents of rice and delicious food in this book to evoke her deep affection for the land that nurtured her, her gratitude and remembrance for the parents and elders who painstakingly shielded their children from hardship during turbulent times. More than that, it is an adult's rediscovery of history, a history she was unknowingly a part of during her naive past. From her uncle-in-law, a writer and publisher who perished in the Straits with the Taiping ferry, to the experiences of General Lin Wen-kui, the Chinese representative of the Flying Tigers during the Sino-Japanese War, who took over as Air Force Commander of the Taipei war zone upon Japan's surrender, and later served as the head of intelligence under General Sun Li-jen's army headquarters, to her father's intergenerational friendship with Mr. George Yeh—these and other accounts add a profound sense of history to this booklet brimming with personal memories.
Publication Date
Publication Date
2022-12-28
Publisher
Publisher
1 Plus Books
Imprint
Imprint
Pages
Pages
236
ISBN
ISBN
9781949736526
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