“Private Showing” by Arthur Meryash
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“Private Showing” by Arthur Meryash
Like Nothing Nameable In his new and thoroughly confusing work of fiction John Barth seems at first blush to be like a great architect making a batch of doll houses just to show that his virtuosity includes mastery over the elegant trifle and the deft sketch. This, of course, is exactly what we were not…
How were children born to Vietnamese women fathered by American servicemen treated after the fall of South Vietnam? How are they treated today?
Opinion | The Shame Culture Crouch starts with the distinction the anthropologist Ruth Benedict popularized, between a guilt culture and a shame culture. In a guilt culture you know you are good or bad by what your conscience feels. In a shame culture you know you are good or bad by what your community says…
The Forgotten Souls: Where Are Taiwanese Soldiers in History? Elite Aboriginal soldiers, known as the Takasago Volunteers, were reputed for their supreme jungle survival skills and were fearless and fearsome. Most of them (there were between 4,000 and 8,000 in total) were sent to Papua New Guinea and suffered some of the highest casualty rates.…
Time to heal the authoritarian era wounds, Tsai says – Taipei Times Good luck with that… The Transitional Justice Commission tasked with uncovering the history of political repression during the Martial Law era was formally launched yesterday at a ceremony attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and Premier William Lai (賴清德).