Revisiting the Border Town
by Zhang Ailing
About This Novel
What does Zhang Ailing think of Taiwan? This book is an article describing Taiwan in Zhang Ailing's life. In the autumn of 1961, Eileen Chang first visited Taiwan and then Hong Kong. Eileen Chang wrote this travelogue in English in 1963, A Return To The Frontier, and in the 1980s she rewrote it in Chinese as "Revisiting the Frontier Town". In Zhang Ailing's eyes, both Taiwan and Hong Kong are "border towns" hanging on the edge of the mainland, and Taiwan, separated by a water from mainland China, has a completely different style from Hong Kong, which borders the mainland. Through her sharp pen, we see the cultural characteristics that have long been forgotten in Taiwan today, as well as the colorful life of Hong Kong citizens in the past.
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
After leaving China, Zhang Ailing's writing was like a flower that had lost its water, dry and colorless, and only stuck to one posture. As she said: "A color travel silent film with a split screen and no dubbing. It was screened silently in a corner of a money-losing expo and no one watched it."
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Official(1)Scraped 11d ago
After leaving China, Zhang Ailing's writing was like a flower that had lost its water, dry and colorless, and only stuck to one posture. As she said: "A color travel silent film with a split screen and no dubbing. It was screened silently in a corner of a money-losing expo and no one watched it."
