Book Selection Exhibition─Those who want to identify themselves╳ Footsteps Book Festival

Jingjing Book Exhibition:
Migration, dispersion and homes of people who identify themselves
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In the end, we still failed to refuse the changes of the times.

Under the ultra-rapid changes in the new era, people are constantly on the move. Like a boat in the flood, we face the unchangeable fate of life together. The collective experiences migration along with society, epidemics, freedom, war, natural disasters and other events. Some people leave and some stay. History seems to be a joke, repeating the common destiny of different time and space. Those who have left are fluttering in the wind in their thoughts, joining hands with strangers on the same road to recognize each other and trying to complete their lives; those who stay may look calm, but see the mountain Is it a mountain? The street scene outside the window is so familiar, the real high-rise buildings, the real language, the real green space, it seems familiar but I don’t know if it is still the same me.

After the immigration anecdotes have been washed away by the times, the tears and sweat are filtered, and the companions in Chen Zhiyong's "Arrival" may appear, so that the pictorial on the wall of a foreign country is no longer a strange actress; living freely, maybe The reason for leaving, or the hope that one day you can go home again? "The Melancholy of Trees" In the face of social fluctuations, people are looking for a stopover between Hong Kong and Taiwan. Some regard Taiwan as the end point, while others regard it as just a springboard. "Border Countries" refers to a series of countries located between Western Europe and Russia. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the "Border Countries" sandwiched between the East and the West struggled to find their lost identity. In it, we seem to see the reincarnation of history again; Outsiders are not necessarily weak. The Taiwan we yearn for now also had a painful black history of oppressing its original inhabitants. "Children of the Dead" makes people stare at memory and death.

History may not tell you anything, but it can teach those who leave how to come back along the way. Two books published by East China Normal University conduct in-depth research on "Chinatown" and "Hong Kong Chungking Mansions". They also talk about settlements in foreign lands. Different ethnic groups jointly build a feeling similar to home, opening up a more magnificent dream, or those people never leave at all. ; Even if there is a way for you to escape to the ends of the world, having an identity is like a nightmare that follows you throughout your life. Anderson said that this is a kind of "imagined community". The national cognition is imaginary, and it is something that no one can choose, no matter what You must make selfless sacrifices for the nation wherever you are, and you must continue this ancient belief until your death; facing soul torture, you can choose a memory to take away from your life, and you will be like in "Next Stop, Heaven" Which person, and in what way, can he prove that he has lived? "Islands are paradise and hell." The uninhabited continent in "Lonely Island" may be our final destination to realize our unfinished dreams.

Selected books explore diaspora, home, place, memory and national imagination.

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※ This book selection exhibition echoes the 2023 Footprint Book Performance Festival "Here Is Elsewhere", which has a puppet show video " Jing. " Encounter " and the City Roaming Theater " After Life " are two performances that are also inspired by life, separation, migration, farewell, and living in an era of rapid social changes and the impact of the epidemic. For ticket purchase details, please refer to " Step Out " Facebook page.


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