Taiwan is currently being gripped by a wave of nostalgia. If the film In the Mood for Love, starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, shows the face of Hong Kong in the 1960s, what Ko Ching-hua's book Rising Tide reveals is a story of old Taipei, and the author's little-known tragic and difficult childhood.
台灣正捲起一股懷舊的風潮，如果說張曼玉、梁朝偉主演的《花樣年華》，所呈現的是六○年代的香港風貌，那麼在隱地的《漲潮日》中所訴說的，就是一則老台北的故事，以及作者不為人知的悲苦、坎坷之童年。