Год выпуска: 2010
Автор: Pei-Hsuan Wang
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Страниц: 48
ISBN: 1934597236
Описание Orchid and Her Missing Roots Charcoal on paper 10.5' x 20' "I had proudly said to myself, 'I can be at home anywhere.' ...... I [later] realized that, like a silkworm on a mulberry leaf, I felt at home in all places because I had not been anywhere else..." In his May 15th, 1955 journal entry from the anthology Lu Mei Xiao Jian (A Collection of Prose from Traveling in America), the Chinese writer Zhi-Fan Chen talked about the interdependence between his homeland, its culture, and himself while he was studying in the United States. Referencing a Song Dynasty painting with orchids floating helplessly in the air, he describes someone "without" a homeland as merely an orchid plant that has lost its roots, "withering by itself even before enduring the harsh treatments of wind and rain." The relationship between spaces, sense of belonging, and... |
