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RECONSTRUCT THE IDENTITIES ON CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE TRANSITION IN TAIWAN
Since 1980s, the marriage pattern in Taiwan has had a huge change for a large number of
female immigrants both from Southeast Asia and Mainland China started to immigrate to
Taiwan. It is called “Marriage Migration.” Researches concerning female immigrant
spouses’ homeland cultures and familial identities were seldom discussed; however, it is
till recent years that the stories of those female immigrants were fully presented/
represented by means of various narratives. For instance, many films, photos, and the
contexts exquisitely depict conflicts between female immigrants and their cross-cultural
marriages, families, children and even their families of origin.
There are three kinds of narratives in immigrants’ writing: oral/confessional narrative,
textual narrative, and documentary films. The first is based on female immigrants’
description orally with their own languages and then being translated into Chinese, or they
write with simple Chinese. For example, the Taiwanese female artist, Lulu Shur-tzy Hou,
played as a medium in depicting seven female immigrant spouses by means of the firstperson
monologue in her three episodes Look Toward the Other Side: Song of Asian
Foreign Brides in Taiwan (2005-2009). These episodes probed into the question of
spouses’ self-identity whilst living in an exotic place. Then, the Textual narrative tends to
focus on the mother-daughter relationships and Pepe Wu’s three short stories in Moving
Skirts will be discussed. It usually illustrates the mother figures with madness, aphasia, or
also absence from home. All mothers are silent without voices. Finally, in the documentary
films, Out/Marriage and Let’s not be Afraid display that women not only play as mothers,
wives, daughter-in-laws, but as a defenders to protect their rights.
This research will explore the following issues in female immigrants from Southeast Asia
in Taiwan: (1) cultural and National identities; (2) motherhood and the mother-daughter
relationships; (3) narrative writing. It will definitely provide a new perspective in Asian
ethic and women’s writing and set up a landmark toward research possibilities of diasporic
females studied by the approaches of displacement
Ground-state properties of interacting two-component Bose gases in a one-dimensional harmonic trap
We study ground-state properties of interacting two-component boson gases in
a one-dimensional harmonic trap by using the exact numerical diagonalization
method. Based on numerical solutions of many-body Hamiltonians, we calculate
the ground-state density distributions in the whole interaction regime for
different atomic number ratio, intra- and inter-atomic interactions. For the
case with equal intra- and inter-atomic interactions, our results clearly
display the evolution of density distributions from a Bose condensate
distribution to a Fermi-like distribution with the increase of the repulsive
interaction. Particularly, we compare our result in the strong interaction
regime to the exact result in the infinitely repulsive limit which can be
obtained by a generalized Bose-Fermi mapping. We also discuss the general case
with different intra- and inter-atomic interactions and show the rich
configurations of the density profiles.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, references adde
Exact ground state of the generalized three-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland model
We generalize the Shastry-Sutherland model to three dimensions. By
representing the model as a sum of the semidefinite positive projection
operators, we exactly prove that the model has exact dimer ground state.
Several schemes for constructing the three-dimensional Shastry-Sutherland model
are proposed.Comment: Latex, 3 pages, 5 eps figure
Wigner crystal induced by dipole-dipole interaction in one-dimensional optical lattices
We demonstrate that the static structure factor, momentum distribution and
density distribution provide clear signatures of the emergence of Wigner
crystal for the fermionic dipolar gas with strongly repulsive dipole-dipole
interactions trapped in one-dimensional optical lattices. Our numerical
evidences are based on the exact diagonalization of the microscopic effective
lattice Hamiltonian of few particles interacting with long-range interactions.
As a comparison, we also study the system with only nearest-neighbor
interactions, which displays quite different behaviors from the dipolar system
in the regime of strong repulsion.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Hidden-symmetry-protected topological phases on a one-dimensional lattice
We demonstrate the existence of topologically nontrivial phase in a
one-dimensional fermionic lattice system subjected to synthetic gauge fields,
which is beyond the standard Altland-Zirnbauer classification of topological
insulators. The topological phase can be characterized by the presence of
degenerate zero-mode edge states or a quantized Berry phase of the occupied
Bloch band. By analyzing symmetries of the system, we identify that the
topological phase and zero-mode edge states are protected by two hidden
symmetries. An extended model with hidden symmetry breaking is also studied in
order to reveal the effect of hidden symmetries on the symmetry protected
topological phase.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
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