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.
A daring, kaleidoscopic Fiction about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn.
A book is an adventure that starts with an author’s creating during this new era of reading. And each part of publishing is a battle. Crosswalk is a partner, who fights on the side of the authors in each war.
