Chimera Literary Salon| Transfiguring Taipei: Urban Lights and Shadows in Du Lian Kui

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Wang Daizhi, the first generation of Taiwanese architect after the war, presented Wilde's classic novel “The Portrait of Gray” with ten years of light (The Picture of Dorian Gray) The scene was moved from Victorian London to Taipei in the 1970s and translated into Dulienqui, which belongs to his era. Through the transformation of time, Wang Daei not only allows us to see a common fable about humanity, but also buried its aesthetic thoughts and observations of Taipei in the plot of the novel. In 2021, a new production was produced by the Wen Shin Art Foundation, curated by the Wen Shin Art Foundation, in collaboration with the Wang Daishi Architectural Research and Preservation Society.

This series of lectures was specially invited by Yang Jia-han (Associate Professor/Writer in the Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsinghua University) to analyze from a literary perspective, introduce Du Lianqui to present Taiwan, and discuss the meaning of reading classics for modern readers; while exhibiting in the works MR. WANG DAICHI'S REFLECTION ON THE TIMES OF THE PLACE AND BROUGHT EVERYONE “CLOSER TO WANG DAICHI” FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE BUILDING.

Returning to the opening theme, the second lecture invited Liao Wai Tong (poet) and Chen Pi-yan (young novelist) to share their thoughts on the streets and cities of Taipei from their writing experiences and reading Du Lien Qui.