Memories of Mount Qilai
Subtitle: The Education of a Young Poet
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jan 20, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231169967
Description: Hualien, on the Taiwanese coast, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet author of this book. Of immense natural beauty and cultural heterogeneity, the city was also a site of extensive social, political, and cultural change in the 20th century, from the Japanese occupation and the American bombings of World War II to the Chinese Civil War, the White Terror, and the Cold War. Taken as a whole, these evocative and allusive autobiographical essays provide a personal response to history as Taiwan transitioned from a Japanese colony to the Republic of China.
Notes: Source title: Memories of Mount Qilai: The Education of a Young Poet (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)