Shida Stories 師大的故事

Last Spring, I brought my students to a bookstore near Shida for two visits. The bookstore is called Moose, 白鹿洞, and it offers book and DVD rentals in comics, romance, martial arts novels, nonfiction, anime, blockbuster movies, and art films. I chose to have a field trip to Moose because the space is like a living archive of global and Asian pop culture—which matches the theme of the course (Popular Culture and Inter-Asia Dialogues). The store also lived through an intriguing history ab...

Hello and welcome back. It’s been a long while since I last updated this series with new episodes. I still teach at Shida. I still produce podcasts. I incorporate podcasting into my teaching whenever I can. Sometimes the goal is to experiment with the audio form. Other times, it is a cool way to hear oneself out. A narrative exercise. In the spring of 2025, I designed a collective audio recording project with my undergraduate students. I had recording stations set up inside a neighborhood boo...

How does a university include? How does a department or program in that university include? How does the environment and society situating the university and individual programs include? These three questions are inter-related, though the answers do not necessarily correspond. The university, department, and society at large could each have their own mode of inclusion (and exclusion). In this episode, with the help of Valentina, known as 芳玲 by her classmates and teachers in ...

In JJ Green’s short story, “The Collector,” a young woman finds an old picture of Shida Night Market in an antique shop. She bargains patiently with the middle-age owner, and eventually pays for it with one gold earring and 45 thousand yuan. Too much? Not enough? And what kind of a payment is that? In this episode of Shida Stories, we encounter Shida in a post-apocalyptic time through JJ Green's sci-fi short story, "The Collector." Listen to author interviews and scene dramatization from the ...

【Shida Stories 師大的故事系列用音訊紀錄片（audio documentary）、音訊散文（audio essay）、多語言、多口音等形式，刻畫、印象化師大周邊的人物與場景。由蔡如音Eva Tsai製作、錄音、剪輯。】 我的衣櫥裡有一半的衣服是在師大的個性小店買的，特別是有大人味、正式風，卻又帶點個性的服飾。以現在的消費型態，蓬勃發展的網路、社群購物模式，或許有點令人難以理解。師大怎麼會在跟服飾店扯上關係。但曾經有一陣子，師大附近的小巷子內，是挖寶的好地方。 2010年前，大約有七年，我非常的幸運過著走路上班的日子；那時師大裡的巷子還沒有櫛比鱗次的服飾與餐廳店家，倒是有零星的個人小舖，混合著通常是（年輕女老闆）「嚴選」日本、香港、跟台灣本地手工設計的小物，下班時，在巷弄裡挖寶成了一個抒壓的樂趣。 陳姐的店我很早就注意到，在泰順街40巷，是師大夜市裡一個相對熱鬧的巷弄，店名很倫敦，叫「Notting Hill」，深藍的招牌底色，明顯呼應著英國倫敦西區有名的諾丁丘市街景色，應該是同名好萊塢愛情電影Notting Hill的效應，台灣翻做《新娘百分百》。有意思的是，雖然店...

Shida Stories is an ongoing audio documentary about the diverse people whose lives were or still are connected with the Shida area. You don't want to miss the experience of the sharp-witted polyglot/author 張志聰. Photo Credit: Jane Kung

Shida Stories is an ongoing audio documentary about the diverse people whose lives were connected with Shida area. This story features Indonesian workers who have spent a great deal of their time in the parks and markets around Shida.

Shida Stories is an ongoing audio documentary about the diverse people whose lives were connected with the Shida area. Meet Alex, who met his wife at Shida Park back in the "MSN days" of 2000s. And meet Ethan, who organized regular "Taipei Discussion and Learning" among expats. How have their lives changed after some local residents protested against the noise and business expansion around Shida Park in 2011?

Part of an audio documentary about migrants, immigrants, and long-term foreigner residents whose lives were connected with Shida area. This story features two long-term foreign residents who grew organically with the subcultural scenes in Shida. Image Credit: Floaty's Creation of Underworld's Interior Mural Music credit: (1)New Beat Rework--"Pilot K" from 來做一張地社合輯吧(Let's Make a Compilation CD About Underworld) (2)夾子電動大樂隊 (Clippers)-爬到屋頂去哭吆 (3)死蚊子-師大路的啤酒罐 from 來做一張地社合輯吧(Let's Make a Compilatio...