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the housework. My girlfriend and I lived together when I was a graduate student. This was also a learning experience. Our life together gave me first-hand experience regarding the demands of feminism. At the time, my income as a part-time teacher at a junior college was very meager – certainly
housework was a source of economic value, her article asserted that productive labor should not be considered the sole source of value in society and that the housewife absorbed in daily life was a 100% living human being. (See http://femjapan.pbworks.com/w/page/8848002/ Housewife%20Movement). 4 Although
and wartime, therefore, the sea did not serve so much as a boundary but rather facilitated a range of interactions between people living in the littoral zone of the East China Sea. Up until the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5), there were only a hand- ful of major international conflicts between
natural life. He stated this approach in the following lines composed in prison: 258 Living a life is the principle of heaven. 生活即天理 No violation from ancient times to the present day. 今古無乖違 Merging yourself into the crowd, 投身眾流中 life will then become boundless. 生命乃無涯258 He also explained: These words
recognized as an “extraordinary person with extraordinary talent” (qirenqicai 奇人奇才) by his friends, his readers, and scholars of his work. His unusual life was full of drama that mirrored the dynamics of China’s political, social, and cultural movements in the twenti- eth century. He was born into a
Qi), the protagonist, played by Lee, depicting the very last moments of his life as a diasporic Chinese person and a mainlander veteran in Taiwan. That is, Old Qi is one of the Chinese immigrants who came to Taiwan after 1949 whose acculturation has been an issue since the moment of their arrival
vis-à-vis this paradox. Still less do we know how living between two life-worlds and two contradictory discourses impacts on the formation of these individuals as transnational subjects. 4 Digital Diaspora and Transnational Place-Making The new migrant experience that forms the focus of our
there are some commonalities among them. First, they are first-generation migrants from a country with one-party rule, meaning that they need to unlearn those political attitudes that are conditioned by living in an authoritarian polity, while also learning to live in a democratic system. Second, these
fiction was monetarily motivated. When publisher/editor Bao Tianxiao searched out Xiang in 1922, he found an opium smoker, residing with a dog, a monkey, and a mistress, and got a promise to write a couple of pieces. Those works resulted in an introduction to Shen Zhifang, who was starting a popular
literary creativity. As a matter of fact, he started to compose verse in the clas- sical style long before he gained fame as an outstanding writer of modern vernacular fiction. He continued to be motivated by the desire to write old- style poetry until the end of his life. In addition, many of his most