Desolate man-Chu Tien-Wen
follow the following prompt and make sure you read the book "Notes of a Desolate Man" by Chu Tien-Wen. The prompt is: In Notes of a Desolate Man, the narrator states that he feels indifferent
toward China, as if it were the "remains of a love, cast into a heap". Yet he also admits that
because he used the Chinese Language, China and its culture are hardly irrelevant to both his life
and his writing. Discuss how this coolness toward China on the other hand, and a fascination with
Japan, India, France, and other foreign countries and cultures, on the other, are mirrored in
Shao's ambivalent feelings toward his lovers and other male friends such as Yongjie or Ah Mao. And
does this show that both true love and perfect places are equally unattainable, even perhaps mere
illusions?