Chinese New Year 2017, spent in Taitung with the family. The night before we had visited an old friend of the mother, and had gone for an evening walk along the old disused railway, past the old school they had attended half a century ago, to the platform of Malan Station. The next day we […]
Archives for January 2017
noir
These are from six occasions. The first two were watching her apply her make-up in a mirror. The next was when I noticed the interesting way the bedside lamp was lighting her. Then there was a more deliberate attempt at doing something interesting with lighting, based on the film noir aesthetic. The close-up […]
迪化街
When it was first constructed, in the 1850s, in the Dadaocheng area Taipei, Dihua Street was known as Center Street, presumably because of its central location within that part of town. The origin of some sections of the street stretch back further, to the time of Dutch rule, so it can lay claim to being […]
活用成語:三人成虎
This idiom originally comes from the second part of the Strategies of Wei in the ancient Chinese text the Strategies of the Warring States, or Zhan Guo Ce. Wei was one of the major states during the Warring States, a period of political upheaval and weak central government, as was the state of Zhao. When […]
活用成語:懸崖勒馬
The idiom 懸崖勒馬 comes from quite an early work, the Yuan dynasty play Zhi Yong Ding Qi by Zheng Dehui. In the play there is the line “呀!你如今船到江心補漏遲,抵多少臨崖勒馬纔收騎”, which means