Returning to Chiayi, my mother's hometown, and studying Chinese at my parents 'alma mater, Taiwan Normal University, redefined the world as I had experienced it growing up and working in a city where there were no other Chinese people at the time.
當我揮別自己的家園，動身前往母親的故鄉時，恍惚中彷佛也懂得了母親當年的感受。嘉義：新鄉還是故鄉？回到母親的故鄉嘉義，在父母的母校師範大學念中文，整個世界剎那間不同了。