{"id":1581,"date":"2007-09-01T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T00:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:04:56","slug":"the-old-capital-a-novel-of-taipei-by-chu-tien-hsin-translated-by-howard-goldblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-old-capital-a-novel-of-taipei-by-chu-tien-hsin-translated-by-howard-goldblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T\u2019ien-hsin, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Old-Capital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30253\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/09\/Old-Capital.jpg\" alt=\"Old Capital\" width=\"403\" height=\"680\" \/><\/a>Four short stories and a longer novella are linked together to create a mosaic of disparate voices that share a visceral longing for a time \u2013\u00a0and\u00a0place \u2013\u00a0forever past. Chu adroitly leads readers through a contemporary Taiwan displaced by Japanese colonial overtones mixed with inescapable Western cultural influences.<\/p>\n<p>Chu\u2019s book is an exercise in chaotic cultural survival, from \u201cDeath in Venice,\u201d about a young writer who finds himself more involved with his characters than his own life, to \u201cBreakfast at Tiffany\u2019s,\u201d in which a young office worker decides she will spend her bonus on the perfect Tiffany diamond ring, to the book\u2019s titled story, \u201cThe Old Capital,\u201d about a young woman who travels to Kyoto to meet an old friend, which causes her to reconsider her life since she and the friend were young students together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/trb-1007-09-10-windowsasian-lit-in-translation-proof.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Windows: Asian Literature in Translation: New &amp; Notable Books,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, September\/October 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1582\" title=\"old-capital\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/old-capital.jpg\" alt=\"old-capital\" width=\"110\" height=\"193\" \/>Four short stories and a longer novella are linked together to create a mosaic of disparate voices that share a visceral longing for a time \u2013 and place \u2013 forever past. 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