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ericcoliu[ericcoliu]
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二品总督
（刚入二品，小心做人）
注册时间: 2007-05-29
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来自: GTA, Canada
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 发表于: 星期六 九月 06, 2008 10:20 am 发表主题: |
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Story 6: Ethnicity
I didn't have an ethnicity
Until I immigrated to Canada.
This Jew, this South Asian, this Arab
This one with a Chinese face
Walking down Spadina to Dundas
I daily face this immigrant,
This man with my own face
Being called Chinese by white Canadians
Mandarin-speaking person in Chinatown
Taiwanese amid people from Hong Kong
Taiwan-centered Chinese among mainland Chinese.
To be continued ......
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clair[clair]
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七品按察司
（我开始管这里的事儿了）
注册时间: 2008-03-13
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| 发表于: 星期一 九月 08, 2008 5:51 pm 发表主题: Re: Stories in between: Old Pasts and New Beginnings |
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I am here
And not here
I am here
With my body
Leaving my heart behind
And my mind caught in between
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These lines are not very clear.
My suggestion is as follows:
My body is here
My heart is there
My mind is in between
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This dark
Ceiling without a star |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu]
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二品总督
（刚入二品，小心做人）
注册时间: 2007-05-29
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来自: GTA, Canada
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| 发表于: 星期一 九月 08, 2008 8:37 pm 发表主题: Re: Stories in between: Old Pasts and New Beginnings |
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I am here
And not here
I am here
With my body
Leaving my heart behind
And my mind caught in between
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These lines are not very clear.
My suggestion is as follows:
My body is here
My heart is there
My mind is in between |
Your rewrite is quite good.
I'll think it over.
Thank you for your helpful suggestion.
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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: 星期一 九月 08, 2008 9:53 pm 发表主题: |
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Story 7: Where Are You from?
In my daily encounters with "Canadians", the question "Where are you from?" is constantly raised and it challenges my sense of identification with Taiwan, Cultural China, the USA and Canada.
On an empowered day, I would describe myself as a permanent resident and naturalized citizen of Canada with multiple migratory and ancestral reference points in Cultural China, Taiwan, and the United States.
On a disempowered day, I am an immigrant from Taiwan not recognized by the UN, constantly questioned by my fellow compatriots about my Taiwanese-ness and unequivocally viewed by “Canadians” as a Chinese, a member of a “visible minority” group, wandering from one place to another in the quest of a soul-space to name as Home.
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fanfan[FAFAFA]
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四品府丞
（封疆大吏也！）
注册时间: 2007-12-27
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来自: Canada
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| 发表于: 星期一 九月 08, 2008 11:25 pm 发表主题: |
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Story 6: Ethnicity
I didn't have an ethnicity
Until I immigrated to Canada.
This Jew, this South Asian, this Arab
This one with a Chinese face
Walking down Spadina to Dundas
I daily face this immigrant,
This man with my own face
Being called Chinese by white Canadians
Mandarin-speaking person in Chinatown
Taiwanese amid people from Hong Kong
Taiwan-centered Chinese among mainland Chinese.
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These lines on the politics of identity remind me of the Governor General award-winning novel, The Jade Peony. The novel is told through the eyes of the Chen family's three youngest children growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown in 1930s and 1940s, and it vividly captures the lived reality of Chinatown from the perspective of these first-generation Canadians. As the children of Chinese immigrants, unlike their parents mostly confined in a socially and culturally segregated community and thus living in the past, they, through the educational system and encounters with people outside their community, have gradually come to grapple with increasingly complex issues regarding their cultural identity in the context of a constantly shifting socio-political reality around them. Sek-Lung, nicknamed Sekky, the youngest of the three, recounts his pressing need to know where he belongs:
"One day, after shopping with Grandmamma and studying the Chinese flag and the Union Jack and the Buy War Bonds posters hanging in Chinatown store windows, I had a burning question. I came home and interrupted Stepmother, who was busy knowing how to knit socks for the soldiers. Am I Chinese or Canadian?”
Sekky’s burning desire for an answer to his identity reinforces the importance of his quest, while the historical cues in the abovementioned passage reveal the growing failure of these identity categories to account for the on-the-ground-realities of his experience. On his way home, Sekky encounters signs of Chinese nationality, the British Empire, and in the War Bonds, the suggestion of an emerging independent Canadian political reality. His experiences of the multi cultural-ethnic-national lived reality suggest the inadequacy of his question, which is based on the assumption that identity is fixed and unified. In and through describing Sekky’s confusion about his identity(or more correctly identities), Wayson Choy draws upon and extends an important characteristics of Asian North American writing from The Woman Warrior onward: the need to negotiate cultural identities out of half-understood phrases and half-remembered stories.
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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
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来自: GTA, Canada
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| 发表于: 星期五 九月 12, 2008 8:19 pm 发表主题: |
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Sekky’s burning desire for an answer to his identity reinforces the importance of his quest, while the historical cues in the abovementioned passage reveal the growing failure of these identity categories to account for the on-the-ground-realities of his experience. On his way home, Sekky encounters signs of Chinese nationality, the British Empire, and in the War Bonds, the suggestion of an emerging independent Canadian political reality. His experiences of the multi cultural-ethnic-national lived reality suggest the inadequacy of his question, which is based on the assumption that identity is fixed and unified. In and through describing Sekky’s confusion about his identity(or more correctly identities), Wayson Choy draws upon and extends an important characteristics of Asian North American writing from The Woman Warrior onward: the need to negotiate cultural identities out of half-understood phrases and half-remembered stories. |
Yes.
The contemporary understanding of identity, which has been influenced by social science and gender studies, is to view identity as performance and thus become more fluid.
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