Cocoon Between Two Shores (Album)

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Author: Lin Guzhen
Publisher: Commonwealth Publishing (Global Views – Commonwealth)

Synopsis:
From the essence of life and a grander frame of time and space,
offering a psychological way out of the cross-strait deadlock

The author, Lin Guzhen, is a Taiwan-born scholar who has studied Taiwanese culture for many years. From 1988 to the present he has made more than ninety trips to mainland China, exploring not only the everyday life of ordinary people at the grassroots but also maintaining considerable contact with the senior leadership.

Over more than a decade, with the keen, true-to-life eye of a Zen practitioner and a man of culture, Lin Guzhen has observed and compared the differences and similarities between the two sides of the strait in culture, history, scholarship and society. In recent years he has grown increasingly anxious about the limitations and blind spots in Taiwanese society's thinking, and so he has taken up his pen to speak frankly of what he sees and reflects upon regarding cross-strait relations, hoping to break the impasse between the two sides.

He states plainly that "Taiwan must stand on the shoulders of the Chinese giant in order to see far and grow grea...

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