本專頁隆重推出全新一期旅行+寫作+攝影企劃：《回家旅行》
Introducing my next travel + writing + photography project: SOJOURNER AT HOME!!!
(English introduction after Mandarin :) )
嘗試過幾次忠實紀錄路上所見的旅行之後，我找到了最適合我的寫作方式——邊走邊寫。但這和許多人沿路到處IG打卡的思維不太一樣。我的方法是，在時間與力氣許可的前提下，每天發佈一篇文章，針對當天的一到二個亮點、精華進行主題式（而非流水帳式）的分享；經歷過上次摩洛哥之行，這種一路寫作配合攝影的旅行方式已漸趨成熟。因此，我決定要用一樣的方式來走這趟回台灣的行程，也就是一路寫作。
說到這裡可能有人會好奇，回家就回家，有什麼好寫的？何況我的讀者大多是台灣朋友，這些人對台灣難道還不夠熟悉嗎？
之所以想要以「回家」為主軸進行關於家鄉的寫作，原因有兩個。首先，常讀我文章的人大概都知道，我很喜歡從生活中的一件小事、一樣東西或者一個小人物出發，去發掘這個人事物背後更大的文化脈絡和歷史背景；既然我可以這樣寫別人的事情，那當然更要這樣寫自己的事情了——我想利用這個回家的機會，把我的文化背景、老家、成長的地方當成寫作的題材；其次，我移居美國這八年多來台灣其實已經改變了不少，從具體可見的如捷運一條一條通車（甚至一度以為有生之年見不到的機場捷運都通了XD）、火車站一座一座變成購物商場，到文化層面上的如東南亞移民人數幾乎增加了一倍、改變了北部城市風貌等，這些改變讓我的「回家」也變得有點像是到一個新的地方去旅行，這些東西當然都是我不會放過的寫作題材。
最後來談談我大概會寫什麼。由於這趟超過一半的時間會待在嘉義，我會對於以前逢年過節才會回去的老家進行一些探索，暫定會談到一點家族文化背景、和我同鄉的一些名人，還有日本殖民統治對於當地生活的影響等；此外，台北的部分則會著重在移民地景以及一些被遺忘的城市角落。還不知道到時候實際可以寫多少，但我會盡力的orz。
連載明天（12/24）開始，歡迎大家在本臉書專頁發摟（當然我個人臉書上也還是看得到啦）。
After a few trips, I realized that the best way for me to write about my travel is to write while traveling. It's a bit different from checking in on IG all the time -- my strategy is, as long as my time and energy allow, writing one post everyday about 1-2 highlights of that day. I practiced this on my last trip to Morocco and it turned out well. Therefore, I decided to do the same thing on this trip back home!
You may wonder: come on, you're not going to a foreign country. You are going home! Why are you writing about your home? Aren't your Taiwanese friends familiar enough with your homeland?
There are two reasons for me. First, if you read my article frequently, you'd know that I always like to link an individual, an event or an object that I ran into in life with the much bigger cultural or historic context. If I'd do this for other people, why wouldn't I do that for myself? Especially on this trip, where I'll go to the place I'm from. Secondly, since I moved to the US 8 years ago, many things have changed. There are more visible ones, such as the opening of new subways, the conversion of train stations into shopping plazas, to more subtle ones, such as the increase of foreign population (almost doubled) and how exotic cultures are infused into the landscape. These changes make home a bit less familiar, which to be more or less feels like going to a new place.
Lastly, about what I'm going to write -- since I'll spend more time at the county where my parents are from (instead of the city I grew up), I'll explore a little bit of my family history, some well-known people from the area, and the influence of pre-WWII Japanese colonization on the current life. As for Taipei, where I grew up, I'll focus on how Southeast Asian immigrants have transformed the city, and some neglected corners in the city.
The series starts tomorrow. Feel free to follow on this page or on my wall!
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