The Inspired Island: Home In Two Cities
Directed by Yang Li-Chou
The film explores Lin Hai-yin’s unique perspective of having “two homelands,” narrated by her daughter Julie Chang. It highlights her life, work as an editor, and her role in overcoming censorship. Lin Hai-yin’s novels, known for their inclusiveness, remain a shared memory for cross-strait readers. She was a friend to writers and a courageous mother, nurturing Taiwanese literature post-war. As editor of the United Daily News, she supported writers like Lin Hwai-min and founded the Belles-Lettres Publishing House. Her living room was a literary hub, and she is fondly remembered as “Ms. Lin Hai-yin.” Her novel Memories of Peking: South Side Stories was published in 1960.
Duration
0h
Released
April 9, 2011
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Part ofThe The Inspired Island (Series)
Includes The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams (2020), The Inspired Island: Home In Two Cities (2011), The Inspired Island: I Remember (2022), The Inspired Island: River Without Banks (2014), The Inspired Island: The Man behind the Book (2011), The Inspired Island: Multiflorate Splendour (2015), The Inspired Island: Towards the Completion of a Poem (2011), The Inspired Island: My City (2015), The Inspired Island: 1918 (2015), The Inspired Island: Boundary (2014), The Inspired Island: The Untrammeled Traveler (2011), The Inspired Island: Port of Mists (2011), The Inspired Island: A Lean Soul (2021), The Inspired Island: The Coming of Tulku (2011), The Inspired Island: A Life That Sings (2014), The Inspired Island: A Lifetime In Chinese Literature (2015), and The Inspired Island: Still Young (2022).
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