Li Shiyong

Introduction

Li, with a Ph.D. from the Institute of Taiwanese Literature, National Taiwan University, writes poetry, prose, and commentary. He was a researcher of the Hou Family Scholarship of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, and he served as the editor-in-chief of the entertainment section of a newspaper, a literary magazine, and a publishing house. He is the author of a collection of essays "To Alice" and the editor-in-chief of "A Hundred Years of Birth: 1900-2000 Taiwan Literary Stories". Currently he is the director of Yu Yu Theater, participating in dance productions such as "Bright Place", "Lily" and "Girl's Heart".

Resident planning

Garden. Zhongxiao Road: Crossing 9,000 Kilometers For You juxtaposes several sections of park life from personal memories, including Zhongxiao Park near Qidong Street, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park at the other end of Zhongxiao East Road, the 228 Peace Memorial Park, which Li walked by every work day while working at the magazine, the Boston Public Garden, in which Li sauntered and lingered while living abroad, and so forth. Li uses gardens as a landscape common thread to run through the memories of the past, and he also shows the evolution of modern public spaces, the gradual retreating of nature and open spaces in the city, and even the cultural relics.