Snow Blind Belonging

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Combining the introduction of Guo Songfen and his novel Snow Blind, I find a feature in his works that the protagonist usually has a “missing father” and a “running mother”, thus making the protagonist become an “orphan”. This feature seems to imply the embarrassing situation of Taiwan in post-WWII era in which Taiwanese called themselves “Asian Orphan”. The colonial history, political conflicts and ideological difference, like the strait, separate Taiwan from mainland. However, this separation never removes the sense of belonging and the innate features of Chinese ethnic. In the novel Snow Blind, Lu Xun’s book, appearing repeatedly, incisively points out the shared innate weakness of Chinese nation, the self-submission which preserves in almost

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