The film explores Lin Hai-yin’s unique perspective of having “two homelands,” narrated by her daughter Julie Chang. It highlights her life, work as an editor, and her role in overcoming censorship. Lin Hai-yin’s novels, known for their inclusiveness, remain a shared memory for cross-strait readers. She was a friend to writers and a courageous mother, nurturing Taiwanese literature post-war. As editor of the United Daily News, she supported writers like Lin Hwai-min and founded the Belles-Lettres Publishing House. Her living room was a literary hub, and she is fondly remembered as “Ms. Lin Hai-yin.” Her novel Memories of Peking: South Side Stories was published in 1960.
DirectorYang Li-chou
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Includes: The Inspired Island: Home In Two Cities, The Inspired Island: The Man behind the Book, The Inspired Island: Towards the Completion of a Poem, The Inspired Island: The Untrammeled Traveler, The Inspired Island: Port of Mists, The Inspired Island: The Coming of Tulku, The Inspired Island: River Without Banks, The Inspired Island: Boundary, The Inspired Island: A Life That Sings, The Inspired Island: Multiflorate Splendour, The Inspired Island: My City, The Inspired Island: 1918, The Inspired Island: A Lifetime In Chinese Literature, The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams, The Inspired Island: A Lean Soul, The Inspired Island: I Remember, The Inspired Island: Still Young, The Inspired Island: The New Formosa Mambo
