I put this short article above of this Taiwanese Chinese poet is to symbolize the vulnerability and the typically innocent quality that Chinese usually has about this country as they think of Haven on this earth. Plus, the way Taiwanese fond todeny their cultural identify as Chinese is my consideration of placing this article here.
Many Chinese, well, in deed that includes people all over the world that has never had any chance to understand or even just think of the problem about self-identification in USA before they apply for immigrating to this country they dream of for a long time.
Malcolm X, a famous black civil right activist, had declared long time ago in 1960 to educated the young black African American about the fact they faced: "America isthe white man's country, and the whites don't want you here and will never give youequal citizenship. But it must always be remembered that our blood is here, ournames are here, our fate is here, in a land we helped to invent...... ".
By reading the struggles that Blacks in America had encountered in such bitterness that enduring for such long period of time; being a citizen of different race ratherthan black and white in this country need to be always carefully study the sensitivityof this issue as well as the approachable solution that history teach us.
That contained invaluable wisdom through numerous people's effort working on justifythe imbalance and eliminating the hatred between different races in this country throughout many generations. We really need to be thankful of living in 21 centurywhen all of these all passed."Malcolm preached the necessity of being African at the complete expense of ourAmerican selves, a love of the misty past at the cost of our actual lives, ourtriumphs, our sufferings in the New World......
"Being confident to assuring a positive attitude to the identity about who you are iswhat I would share with Taiwanese Chinese and all others has doubt and uncertainabout this issue, for I think it is a valuable lesson we all need to learn.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
張愛玲 Narrative non-fiction collection 1939-1947
林潤崧的書房 (136) since:2007/06/18
http://www.ireading.cc/person/whoami.aspx?mid=17709
I am recently reading 張愛玲's book. In one chapter she mentioned about overseas Chinese is actually a homeless in the bottom of their mind. I have never think of this way before; even though, I am always arguing with Americans here that people shouting at each other asking one another "Go back to your country!"
Whites from all different country, black, native Indian, Hispanic, all different people from Central America, South America, Asia......People always shouting and jealous at each other in USA...fighting ...riot...
Therefore, American are more open mind to talk about this; Since everybody all come from different places. Sometimes, this topic drive me crazy and then I finally feel tired and decided to drop this debatable and controversial subject.
Now, after reading 張愛玲's book, I think I could understand you and other Chinese who live in the South Asia that a certain population was spread to that area from China during WWII. From time to time, people in Taiwan can read news from south Asia about Chinese in that area has encountered many sad stories.
Hope you and other Chinese will feel better that Chinese in USA need to suffer and can share the same confusion about self-identification and cultural orientation as people like you in South Asia. Even though I do hear some newcomers from Korea or some other countries claimed that they think USA is the heaven on earth, the paradise of this planet; well, I knew they are new here and once they been here long enough they will learn how to shout to others. Hopefully, by the time they pick up how to shout to others they haven't completely gone crazy by living in such paradise. Well, positively thinking of this country is still a place I can chase something I want; even though, it is might be weird in other people's eyes.
We all need to hanging on God, this is probably the only thing we can do and hope for to live our lives.
2008/5/13 上午 09:20:07
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Teaching the "How-to" be happy.
欣小芸
看完了龍應台和他兒子安德烈合著「親愛的安德烈」一書........
http://www.ireading.cc/review/review.aspx?rid=28647
One generation supposely should be better than the last one; but it really depends on how you arrange your life. When I was little as a student oftenly being asked the question like this or read article subjected on this.
Neither of my parent nor my teachers demo the way of finding happiness or working into a field that I will feel happy to. Our educational system only provide the topic, but lack of explaination and demostration of how-to.
Now I am a mid-aged adult, and I am so regret that in my life has never had a person given me a help to understand "how-to" reach a dream. The process of working on a dream is long and dreadful, plus there is no one in an ordinary person's life would list out the "how-to".
Being a teacher, what would you think of my essay.
看完了龍應台和他兒子安德烈合著「親愛的安德烈」一書........
http://www.ireading.cc/review/review.aspx?rid=28647
One generation supposely should be better than the last one; but it really depends on how you arrange your life. When I was little as a student oftenly being asked the question like this or read article subjected on this.
Neither of my parent nor my teachers demo the way of finding happiness or working into a field that I will feel happy to. Our educational system only provide the topic, but lack of explaination and demostration of how-to.
Now I am a mid-aged adult, and I am so regret that in my life has never had a person given me a help to understand "how-to" reach a dream. The process of working on a dream is long and dreadful, plus there is no one in an ordinary person's life would list out the "how-to".
Being a teacher, what would you think of my essay.
願 --- 作者：蔣勳
A beautful poem from the memory of my young age....
我願是滿山的杜鵑 只為一次無憾的春天
我願是繁星 捨給一個夏天的夜晚
我願是千萬條江河 流向唯一的海洋
我願是那月 為你 再一次圓滿
如果你是島嶼 我願是環抱你的海洋
果你張起了船帆 我願是輕輕吹動的風浪
如果你遠行 我願是那路 準備了平坦 隨你去到遠方
當你走累了 我願是夜晚 是路旁的客棧 有乾淨的枕席 供你睡眠
眠中有夢 我就是你枕上的淚痕
我願是手臂 讓你依靠
雖然白髮蒼蒼 我仍願是你腳邊的爐火 與你共話回憶的老年
你是笑 我是應和你的歌聲
你是淚 我是陪伴你的星光
當你埋葬土中 我願是依伴你的青草
你成灰 我便成塵
如果 如果你對此生還有眷戀我就再許一願 與你結來世的因緣
我願是滿山的杜鵑 只為一次無憾的春天
我願是繁星 捨給一個夏天的夜晚
我願是千萬條江河 流向唯一的海洋
我願是那月 為你 再一次圓滿
如果你是島嶼 我願是環抱你的海洋
果你張起了船帆 我願是輕輕吹動的風浪
如果你遠行 我願是那路 準備了平坦 隨你去到遠方
當你走累了 我願是夜晚 是路旁的客棧 有乾淨的枕席 供你睡眠
眠中有夢 我就是你枕上的淚痕
我願是手臂 讓你依靠
雖然白髮蒼蒼 我仍願是你腳邊的爐火 與你共話回憶的老年
你是笑 我是應和你的歌聲
你是淚 我是陪伴你的星光
當你埋葬土中 我願是依伴你的青草
你成灰 我便成塵
如果 如果你對此生還有眷戀我就再許一願 與你結來世的因緣
The Death of Famous Chinese -- 張愛玲
我看到新聞那刻的感覺，很是複雜。我去看過這篇了，不過，我不太清楚您Blog的主軸。同一個版面，有柏楊，也有油電車…油電車在台灣，是有錢人炫耀的玩具，和環保沒多大關係。
Acetone：2008/05/07 10:12:54
http://www.ireading.cc/person/whoami.aspx?mid=15504
I write my concern on my blog about different issues. What you said is interested that hybrid car owner here is focus on saving expense and has 100% to do with $環保$ and how can that become a car owned by rich people in Taiwan. Are they owning hybrid car for the purpose of saving expense or spending more money?
When you zoom out of your eyes-scope looking at this issue, you probably can see how much of gasoline can be saved by any other energy alternatives while three big countries now sharing same sources to supply their operation of industry and consuming of gasoline usage for cars everyday. And we haven't count all other smaller countries that need gasoline at the same time.
USA is a big country like China and Russia that going anywhere need driving car, which is not like Taiwan actually people can take mass transportation to go to any destination. This is probably what you said about those rich people in Taiwan actually do not need drive a car but they own hybrid car for showing off. This is too much.I take bus or mass transportation every time I go back Taiwan visiting my mother.
While answering your question, I do find people in Taiwan has different aspect of viewing and thinking the issues that many countries concerned. The articles in my blog show the issues I concern as a Chinese and an American. 柏楊 is a famous Chinese writer and civil right activist that American don't know him. In deed, Americans don't know and don't care anything about Asia. But, I am both.
柏楊 supposedly need to be placed on the blog of my reading room; however, I think his death is so important to me because my father sort of forcing us to read his articles when we are little kid, he then became a person growing up with us; and those snobbish others in other countries should know how much work that Chinese spend two centuries to work on civil right while we knew theirs, so I placed it on my major blog. Chinese always learn about other countries' writers and their history; in the meantime, they are too snobbish to know any little of ours. Don't you agree?
This topic about the death of a famous Chinese has another example to discuss.
張愛玲 (Zhang, Ai-Ling) is a very famous Chinese writer and don't tell me you don't know her. Do you know how she died in L.A. in 2001? As the photo pictures shown on newspaper, she died in a small renting apartment with a folding bed, and write her articles on the top of unopened cartoon boxes. In her late life, she kept moving from apartment to apartment. Can you image a such Chinese icon died in L.A. with the living condition like this?
Chinese always belittle each other among Chinese. 張愛玲 probably is a victim of this culture to died in such condition with the fame of an Icon status in Chinese literacy field.
How ugly are we as her reader? The whole Chinese society fell to promote and introduce her outstanding work to the world and fell to provide a seasonable living condition to such talented writer, and even worse is people steal her work for the money of income should originally belong to her.
I do wish I could have read her book before her death, for I do think she deserve an Icon title among Chinese or we should said among all writers in this world with her thoughts laid in her articles do provide an unique and outstanding insight in illustrating human's soul while other writers can not reach the same height of hers when I reading her book now, plus such long lasting fame and popularity; even though, she belong to the era of WWII survivor.
Have you decide to belittle me now?
Acetone：2008/05/07 10:12:54
http://www.ireading.cc/person/whoami.aspx?mid=15504
I write my concern on my blog about different issues. What you said is interested that hybrid car owner here is focus on saving expense and has 100% to do with $環保$ and how can that become a car owned by rich people in Taiwan. Are they owning hybrid car for the purpose of saving expense or spending more money?
When you zoom out of your eyes-scope looking at this issue, you probably can see how much of gasoline can be saved by any other energy alternatives while three big countries now sharing same sources to supply their operation of industry and consuming of gasoline usage for cars everyday. And we haven't count all other smaller countries that need gasoline at the same time.
USA is a big country like China and Russia that going anywhere need driving car, which is not like Taiwan actually people can take mass transportation to go to any destination. This is probably what you said about those rich people in Taiwan actually do not need drive a car but they own hybrid car for showing off. This is too much.I take bus or mass transportation every time I go back Taiwan visiting my mother.
While answering your question, I do find people in Taiwan has different aspect of viewing and thinking the issues that many countries concerned. The articles in my blog show the issues I concern as a Chinese and an American. 柏楊 is a famous Chinese writer and civil right activist that American don't know him. In deed, Americans don't know and don't care anything about Asia. But, I am both.
柏楊 supposedly need to be placed on the blog of my reading room; however, I think his death is so important to me because my father sort of forcing us to read his articles when we are little kid, he then became a person growing up with us; and those snobbish others in other countries should know how much work that Chinese spend two centuries to work on civil right while we knew theirs, so I placed it on my major blog. Chinese always learn about other countries' writers and their history; in the meantime, they are too snobbish to know any little of ours. Don't you agree?
This topic about the death of a famous Chinese has another example to discuss.
張愛玲 (Zhang, Ai-Ling) is a very famous Chinese writer and don't tell me you don't know her. Do you know how she died in L.A. in 2001? As the photo pictures shown on newspaper, she died in a small renting apartment with a folding bed, and write her articles on the top of unopened cartoon boxes. In her late life, she kept moving from apartment to apartment. Can you image a such Chinese icon died in L.A. with the living condition like this?
Chinese always belittle each other among Chinese. 張愛玲 probably is a victim of this culture to died in such condition with the fame of an Icon status in Chinese literacy field.
How ugly are we as her reader? The whole Chinese society fell to promote and introduce her outstanding work to the world and fell to provide a seasonable living condition to such talented writer, and even worse is people steal her work for the money of income should originally belong to her.
I do wish I could have read her book before her death, for I do think she deserve an Icon title among Chinese or we should said among all writers in this world with her thoughts laid in her articles do provide an unique and outstanding insight in illustrating human's soul while other writers can not reach the same height of hers when I reading her book now, plus such long lasting fame and popularity; even though, she belong to the era of WWII survivor.
Have you decide to belittle me now?
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Gap between Chinese parent and their American born child
書名：親愛的安德烈
http://www.ireading.cc/review/Review.aspx?rid=31874#83693
"我們這一代真有點悲哀,小時候學到的是, 要聽父母老師的話,長大學到的是,要尊重聆聽孩子的話,請問一下,那誰來聽我們的話啊?"
Be very careful about this! You sound like a traditional "Chinese Mother-In-law" waiting for your turn to torture a future "Daughter-In-law". Why do you need somebody to listen to you?
You should be happy your child is able to be independent with a trustable maturity, which is also a proof of your good teaching and family education fostering a good child that could earned your trust. The best way is train yourself to have them willing to take your advise as the same way they take advice from their friends. We all are parents in learning process.
As a same background of you, I did not support we need to copy everything tradition passed down to us, most of them are good, but not everything. Many of the teachings from tradition are not suitable to modern day's life, we need to admit that such as numbers of wives vs. one husband was legal in the past. Do you like this to past down to your marriage today?
Adjust whatever we need to have the rule fit into our lives better as long as it bring harmonious relationship to our family.
My daughter called 911 during Spring break, because we asked her do more work that school did not assigned and her reason is Spring break is for taking a break and not for continue to work. She is tired of tons of homework during regular school days and excited for a break time finally do not need to work for any school work. Be honest, I sort of agree with her.
編輯內容 Nancy Liu's reading room 2008/5/7 上午 03
http://www.ireading.cc/review/Review.aspx?rid=31874#83693
"我們這一代真有點悲哀,小時候學到的是, 要聽父母老師的話,長大學到的是,要尊重聆聽孩子的話,請問一下,那誰來聽我們的話啊?"
Be very careful about this! You sound like a traditional "Chinese Mother-In-law" waiting for your turn to torture a future "Daughter-In-law". Why do you need somebody to listen to you?
You should be happy your child is able to be independent with a trustable maturity, which is also a proof of your good teaching and family education fostering a good child that could earned your trust. The best way is train yourself to have them willing to take your advise as the same way they take advice from their friends. We all are parents in learning process.
As a same background of you, I did not support we need to copy everything tradition passed down to us, most of them are good, but not everything. Many of the teachings from tradition are not suitable to modern day's life, we need to admit that such as numbers of wives vs. one husband was legal in the past. Do you like this to past down to your marriage today?
Adjust whatever we need to have the rule fit into our lives better as long as it bring harmonious relationship to our family.
My daughter called 911 during Spring break, because we asked her do more work that school did not assigned and her reason is Spring break is for taking a break and not for continue to work. She is tired of tons of homework during regular school days and excited for a break time finally do not need to work for any school work. Be honest, I sort of agree with her.
編輯內容 Nancy Liu's reading room 2008/5/7 上午 03
Thursday, April 24, 2008
預約一季冬雪(附英詩朗誦CD)
分明點點深: http://www.ireading.cc/review/review.aspx?rid=30860 I have search on web and found 尤克強 e-column and currently I am reading on. I am not say I like this writer, buy I am evaluate the style suit me or not. He became a channel in discovering English poems to me. Thank you for your sharing, so I can find more writer's article to read, for I have left Taiwan for too long and there are too many new writers I am not familiar with or any new book from those author I used to enjoy reading their work. Talking about new author, I am sort of switch to China looking for the quality where I can still find that kind of Chinese scholar style of quality of literature work.
This is the loneliness I am talking about what makes me keep searching on that include my attendance of Church Sunday worship; these all are the inner drive that reflecting as human's desire to look for a better quality of spiritual life. Literature, art, music, religion....any form of beauty. I am currently exploring the art of building (architecture)and hopefully I would have the chance to do so. Carefully do your recommendation, because your work do work for me.
By the way, there is one thing I would like to have your idea to explain it, which poems I read so far translated by 尤克強, I would said the poem being translated in Chinese are way beautiful than the original English sentences. Is my English literature level limits my appreciation to those poems written in English, or that is because Chinese scholar's translation work is way above professional? I am very honest to express and display my opinion about the translation work between the language of Chinese and English. Can this be accounted as a peculiar point of view?
Thank you for your sharing again.
編輯內容 Nancy Liu's reading room 2008/4/22 上午 02:19:46
Posted by Nancy Liu at 1:33 PM 0 comments
The beauty of literature
Beautiful Quotes from I-Reading: Kyle的書房 (1721) since:2007/05/20 http://www.ireading.cc/person/whoami.aspx?mid=12357
曾經有人提及： 博學是知識的儲水池， 而非知識的源頭。 每一個人在自己的生活中和閱讀的書本中， 可以萃煉許多的經驗與汲取眾多的知識， 漸漸形成一個人的聰明才智， 有的人敝帚自珍吝於分享， 有的人開放心胸大方分享， 前者的才華如同一池死水漸漸喪失生命力， 後者的智慧如同青春之源滋潤眾生。
Writing is an art, like other formations of art. Here are some of writing reflect of artistic writing in Chinese as we sometimes can see advanced English literal writing that reflect writer's decent level of talented writing skills and the wised mind behind the words and sentences.In many reading materials, I always can see the belief as of whatever language Western world can not read or understand the beauty of that language, and then that culture or civilization equals non-existing. In contrary to the Westerns, I felt good I can appreciated the beauty of Chinese language and the fantastic asset of its culture, for sometimes they provides various extra space for me to enjoy the spiritual richness more than others can.
-Nancy Liu
追求專業風采的天蠍的書房 (1367) since:2007/05/18
http://www.ireading.cc/person/whoami.aspx?mid=11225
愛讀書的人未必有錢多金、未必功業彪炳、未必情場得意、未必家庭幸福人生美滿，然而每當橫逆來襲，挫折迎面之際，他們總比不讀書的人多了一份餘裕的迴旋空間和從容的應對姿態!
身為讀者，對於"主動閱讀的方式"的啟蒙: 作家以深刻厚實的作品，來提昇讀者的品味及素養，也是其想向讀者致敬的方式。
把人的生命當成一個寓言來看，那麼人的一生其實都在流亡。比如母親生下我們之後，我們被這外界的許許多多去推移、前進，其中一定有一些態度是可以用來自處及觀看世界的.看他如何展現流亡中的自在. 於是，書寫者走得多遠，我們就跟得多遠，而那時，我們自我的品質、觀看生命的方法也將有所不同。在紛亂動盪的世局下，小小的凡人終究會反應出一套屬於自己的生存方式，其中或許有些無奈，卻是人生最真實的寫照。 ---Thinking about most of us all are one of this group of people.
-旅行為何如此迷人？讓人甘願葬身其中!有人說那是一種逃避，有人說那是一種轉移! 如果有時空因素，少年狂放、中年沈斂、老年蒼勁的心境起伏，那該是多麼複雜而迷人的一個心靈活動過程呀！....再讀"轉山"後記!領導者做對的事，經理人則把事情做對」。… 華倫．班尼斯（Warren Bennis）
-此書以1.如何定義問題2.找尋相關資料3.執行時程規劃4.修正錯誤5.監督以貫徹目標的完整思考與行動架構，期許組織領導者都皆將能做好現代組織有關人事決斷、策略決斷、危機決斷此最重要的三大決斷.
-我正以自己的步調學習重新認識自己「是」什麼? 也許是一種有機會能溫暖人心的回憶和價值感!
-作者展現流浪中的自在生活，感受著人間的真性情!
-也許這就是歷史! 多年以後的今天﹐再三回顧我們走過的來時路依然看到這條路上的繁花似錦!
"扭曲的自尊，深沉的惡意"
Do you believe this has became a field of science in USA, for the need of management in working place by psychological manupulation usually peopole who major in psychiatry will has lab work or project for this kind of subject?It is a very advanced new science in developed country; especially in USA. This is a mandatory training; especially for those people who being promoted to be in management level, they need to take training like this to have their infirior to obey their instruction at working place.It is a science. -Nancy Liu
Monday, April 21, 2008
被遺忘的大屠殺－1937南京浩劫(70週年紀念版)
The discussion section here is subject on this book but involved the 228 evnt in Taiwan's history.
You have alread read the new book of Ms. Lung,Yin-Tai which you can see how this tragedy has been taken care with mounument erected in the site of graveyard where victims were buried, and the Taipei's central park has already renamed to be 228 Memorial park as well as the payment has been paid to the victim or their relatives. How can government do more to end this subject to be used endlessly everytime when the election comes?
Solution to a problem is more important than endlessly talking about it. Any discussion is aimed to slove problems, discussion is not for gossip. People in Taiwan has been talking too much, and doing too little to form a systmatically thinking, training, and then doing the exactly problem solving work. You are still so young with very clear mind what I can see from your writing, wish you understand what I meant here.
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