Profiling the Unseen is about the people we run into every day, the ones who keep our systems running, who we see every day and yet we do not really “see”. This is book share their inspiring stories through photographs and words.
This book captures the author’s memories of the beautiful and truly inspiring people who she had met over 2014, across Taipei, Delhi and San Francisco.
In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of Memory of Fire, his fictive historical trilogy of the Americas, to his own life and the contemporary scene. redundant and you later make clear that these are short pieces.aa He writes of his years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship in the 1970s, of his heart attack and of his wife's loss of a child halfway to term. His sociopolitical commentaries expose the shallow selfishness and callousness vague. do you mean 'cultural character' 'lack of individuality'aa?
After you were born I felt it was necessary to write. I needed to tell the story just as the period blood silently came outside from my body every month. Every night there were countless dreams I made. I hated your father. The feeling was so strong that I want to cut him deeply by knife every month. Therefore, I needed to go back to the hotel of my childhood again and again, to reconstructed my brain again and again, to patted the cat again and again, and then to put my nose into the cat’s hair, again and again. I was shocked by my power and brutality.
In the mud of revolution, the souls got lost. What can only be held was the absurd faith. — a novel which represents the period of Cultural Revolution.
The background was set in a worker village in Wuhan. With this book, we can behold the history and turbulence of the Cultural Revolution through common people’s eyes. The writer described the darkness and the sadness of humanity with plain yet wild tone. He didn’t put stress on the sufferings of the time but tell the story of low class people instead. And this is what far more touchable.
To know the real China, you must read YeFu’s book first.
The writer wrote down the aspiration and the vicissitude of his generation. Those who didn’t want to flee from their homeland had chosen to stayed and witnessed. They witnessed the way government acts and they lived and died with it. To live, was about to write and to witness the era with your own lives.
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings, both shaming and brutal. A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extra-marital sex and wonders what he should do with the body.
At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer's, Adria Ardevol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father's study becomes the centre of his world. His mother, a cold, distant, and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adria's world with guilt, secrets, and deeply troubling mysteries. Ambitious, powerful and deeply-moving.
黃涵榆 is the professor of English Department of National Taiwan Normal University. This collection contains her speech scripts and seminar papers which aims at the subjects such as “Biopolitics”, “Archive and Witness”, “Fears and Terror” and “Justice” etc. By using contemporary western theories and combining with the “traditional” anthropology, political science, sociology and history, the author inspects the history of Taiwan, as well as nowadays social and political events which are just the contexts we are involved in.
Founded in 1996, Assignment Theatre is among the very few in Taiwan which employ the approach of People’s Theatre and put the training into practice. Always basing its material on real social issues, the company explores the aesthetics of performance in modern theatre by weaving in local histories and life experiences.
