Ancient Capital
by Zhu Tianxin
About This Novel
"The whirling ocean, the beautiful island. Don't your memories count?" Kyoto is a poem, and Taipei is a novel. The writer traveled between the two cities, looking for a place where spirit and memory can rest: on one side is the ancient capital that remains unchanged and carries memories in Kawabata Yasunari's works, and on the other is his hometown of Taipei, which is constantly erasing history and memory. Using a map from the Japanese occupation period, the narrator wanders through the streets of Taipei at the end of the century. The only sights he sees are the ruins and fractures left by urban evolution and construction. The relics of memory are disappearing, and both the collective and the individual are suffering from historical amnesia. "Ancient Capital" is Zhu Tianxin's island fable, which includes five short stories and short stories. Like Benjamin's "New Angel" in Klee's paintings, she stares at the ruins of history, stops time, and awakens the dead, but is blown step by step into the future by the wind of the times. This book was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly and is a classic of contemporary Chinese literature.
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