People, Places, and Events Featured in this Episode:
Brilliant Time Bookstore
(Feature on Mr. CHANG Cheng and his partner, Ms. LIAO Yun-chan)
Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
FemBooks est. 1994
KANG Min Jay
National Taiwan University’s Graduate Institute of Building and Planning
WenRooTin Cultural Area
Eslite Bookstore
(More on Eslite’s cultural significance and future)
Treasure Hill
KANG Min Jay’s speech “Altered Space: Squatting and Legitimizing Treasure Hill, Taipei” presented at Cultural Development Network’s 2006 Forum, “Artivism: The Role of Arts in Regeneration”
Public art project at Taipower Spider Tree
Tonsan Bookstore est. 1982 (the leftist bookstore referred to by KANG Min Jay)
GinGin Books est. 1999 (the gay bookstore referred to by KANG Min Jay)
(More on GinGin’s founder, LAI Jeng-jer 賴正哲)
Taiwanese poet CHEN Kehua’s poem, “Anal Subjectivity”
(Note: This webpage from Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has a different translation of the poem’s title. Google also translates differently as “The Need for Anal Sex.”)
Taiwan’s 2018 Referendum
Music
“Monday Spirit”
長笛Flute/作曲Composition:張瑛蘭 Ing Lan CHANG
人聲Vocal/ 作詞 Lyrics:喜辰晨 XI Chenchen
吉他Guitar:林華勁 Gin LIN
Other Relevant Links:
Selected patrons will receive copies of Salsa by Taiwanese poet Hsia Yu translated by Steven Bradbury, courtesy of Zephyr Press.
(More translations by Steven Bradbury)
書店裡的影像詩 Video Poems Inside a Bookstore: 2016 Web Documentary Series Profiling 40 Different Independent Bookstores in Taiwan
友善書業合作社 Taiwan's Independent Bookstore Culture Association
During their trip, Rachel and Doreen also visited the Beitou Museum exhibit: “Stories Told Through Mother’s Hands: Children’s Textile & Embroidery Arts” guided by its curator Brenda Lin, who also serves as Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Les Enphants Co and is the author of Wealth Ribbon
The exhibit showcased items from Brenda’s mother, Christi Lan Lin’s, collection of traditional Asian textiles made by mothers for their children.
Brenda’s forthcoming essay, “Things,” will be published Feminist Press’ WSQ in May 2020.
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