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ericcoliu

We Are Haunted by Names

Living on Ilha Formosa
We are haunted
By a war of Names
Fighting for the Republic of China/Taiwan
We Chinese, we Taiwanese will never end our civil war
A bloody bloodless civil bore.
No Kamikazes crashing, no Dr. Luther King murdered
To Uncle Sam and Brother Momotaro
We are the good soldiers.
Lacking the ghosts of History
We are haunted.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

星子 · 发表于: 星期六九月 22, 2007 3:08 pm 发表主题:

Peace is what people want.
War is what politicians want.

--Don't remember who said that
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ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期六九月 22, 2007 5:26 pm 发表主题:

All peoples want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

In the tug-of-war of Names for Taiwan's identity, language is the first casualty, becoming an emotionally-charged set of linguistic signifiers of a P.C. language.

Everyone in Taiwan has his/her own dictionary of identity politics based on the ethnic, linguistic, family background lines of thinking.

A simple question like "Are you Taiwanese?" can be a endless futile process of defining and re-defining the words Taiwan and Taiwanese. A bloody bloodless civic bore.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

Champagne · 发表于: 星期日九月 23, 2007 11:17 am 发表主题:

Waging a war of Names that have no substance, or bear mere nominal existence, or don't correspond to any historical reality is a really bloody bloodless civic bore.

Following your line of thinking, the second causality following the demise of the accurate use of language is to de-contextualize historical accounts and then to lose a sense of history in its broader context and then to turn everything historically significant into raw material for the language game

Yes, lacking the ghosts of History, we are haunted.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

Lake · 发表于: 星期日九月 23, 2007 9:59 pm 发表主题:

It is a very sensitive topic that reveals the unsettled and uneasy state of mind.

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期三九月 26, 2007 8:41 pm 发表主题:

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期日一月 13, 2008 11:31 am 发表主题:

The Map of Taiwan

If you open up the world map
And examine the geographic relation
Between Taiwan and China,
Would the island grow bigger, or smaller?
Would the island extend its arm
And reach the mainland as a peninsula?
Or would the globe get compressed
And result in the island's drifting
Away from the mainland for good?
All possibilities are laid out
In the minds of the people in Taiwan,
But reduced by the nationalistic Chinese,
Who are assisted with Taiwanese pro-independence rhetoric,
To one firm answer -- unification.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

maybe · 发表于: 星期日一月 13, 2008 2:30 pm 发表主题:

interesting post!

tory or ism
tai won the democratic change
such notion beyond the map

i actually adore his.
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could be

ericcoliu

Over the past 12 years, Democracy in Taiwan has been a process by which the people would be free to choose the man who would get the blame.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

ericcoliu

Formosa by Liu Kexiang

The first discoverer
Had no idea where to plot it on the nautical
charts
An island wavering over the Tropic of
Cancer
Possessed of the most vexing past and the
frailest people
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

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