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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期六 九月 22, 2007 9:08 am 发表主题: We Are Haunted by Names ( revised for KMT's 'victory' ) |
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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. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul
最后进行编辑的是 ericcoliu on 星期日 一月 13, 2008 4:47 pm, 总计第 5 次编辑 |
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星子[ANNA] 星子作品集 酷我!I made it!
注册时间: 2004-06-05 帖子: 13192 来自: Toronto
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发表于: 星期六 九月 22, 2007 3:08 pm 发表主题: |
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Peace is what people want.
War is what politicians want.
--Don't remember who said that _________________
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期六 九月 22, 2007 5:26 pm 发表主题: |
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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. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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Champagne[Champagne] Champagne作品集 四品府丞 (封疆大吏也!)
注册时间: 2007-09-15 帖子: 394 来自: Nowhere & Everywhere
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发表于: 星期日 九月 23, 2007 11:17 am 发表主题: |
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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. _________________ I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.
最后进行编辑的是 Champagne on 星期日 九月 23, 2007 10:14 pm, 总计第 1 次编辑 |
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Lake[Lake] Lake作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2006-10-10 帖子: 1341 来自: Sky Blue Water
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发表于: 星期日 九月 23, 2007 9:59 pm 发表主题: |
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It is a very sensitive topic that reveals the unsettled and uneasy state of mind. |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期三 九月 26, 2007 8:41 pm 发表主题: |
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Lake 写到: | It is a very sensitive topic that reveals the unsettled and uneasy state of mind. |
It reveals the unsettled and uneasy mind of the state as well.
If I am unavoidably a Chinese by descent
I am only sometimes a Chinese by consent
When and how is a matter of politics.
If I am legitimately a Taiwanese by birth rights
I am oftentimes a mere New Taiwanese by pro-democracy rhetoric.
What and where is a matter of choice. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期日 一月 13, 2008 11:31 am 发表主题: |
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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. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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maybe[maybe] maybe作品集 九品县令 (一不小心,做了官儿了。)
注册时间: 2008-01-03 帖子: 16
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发表于: 星期日 一月 13, 2008 2:30 pm 发表主题: |
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interesting post!
tory or ism
tai won the democratic change
such notion beyond the map
i actually adore his. _________________ could be |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期日 一月 13, 2008 4:45 pm 发表主题: Re: We Are Haunted by Names (revised for KMT's "victory |
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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. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul
最后进行编辑的是 ericcoliu on 星期日 一月 13, 2008 5:00 pm, 总计第 1 次编辑 |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期日 一月 13, 2008 4:46 pm 发表主题: Re: We Are Haunted by Names ( revised for KMT's 'victory' ) |
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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 _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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fanfan[FAFAFA] fanfan作品集 四品府丞 (封疆大吏也!)
注册时间: 2007-12-27 帖子: 353 来自: Canada
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发表于: 星期三 一月 16, 2008 10:10 am 发表主题: Re: We Are Haunted by Names ( revised for KMT's 'victory' ) |
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ericcoliu 写到: |
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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As a reader, I'm really haunted by the names you use in the poem.
Lacking the ghosts of History
We are haunted.
Yes. The kind of historical amnesia subtly portrayed in your poem is so alarming, depriving the Taiwanese of a deeper understanding of their histories (definitely not History). _________________ Don't imitate me;
it's as boring
as the two halves of a melon. |
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