Ping-hui Liao, Department of Literature, UC San Diego
Andrew F. Jones, Discussant. East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
This talk will cover three small but timely events: the publication of "Eiren's Fan: An Elegy on February 28" by Nishikawa Mitsuru; the opening of a "Secret Garden," an underground art project by Mali Wu; and the genesis of secret narratives that Dingnan Chen was starved to death. "Eiren's Fan" reflects on Taiwan's difficult transition from the Japanese period to the KMT era. The piece was written in 1947, but the author decided to release it in 1989, the year he considered Taiwan to be entering its postcolonial phase. "Secret Garden" is an eco-feminist landscape art that aims to undermine Chinese nationalism and identity politics. Finally, the defeat of the MKT in the most recent Yilan election may have something to do with gossips. All three deal with untold stories and unnatural catastrophes.
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