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February 28 Peace Memorial Park (renamed in 1996) is a politicized space as its name refers to a massacre in 1947 (Braester 2010, p. 202), a history recorded in City of Sadness (dir. Huo Hsiao-Hsien 1989) but suppressed by the Kuomintang (KMT), which ruled Taiwan after 1949. The site is also associated with a modernist literary text, which serves as the setting for Pai Hsien-yung’s novel Crystal Boys (1983), a story about a group of young gay men in search of sexual and cultural identities in an era when homosexuality was illegal under the then government regime. Pai also wrote a collection of short stories, Taipei People (1971), named after James Joyce’s Dubliners, depicting people who left China for Taiwan when the government of the Republic of China, that is, the KMT, moved to the island.
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Lo, L. (2016). A Cinematic Guide to Asian Cities: Taipei, Seoul, and the Cinema of Destruction. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_42
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