Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Translation and Spelling -- Chapter One Introduction -- 'Place' and 'Placelessness' -- The Mutable and the Immutable -- The Poetic Space -- Taiwanese Modernist Aesthetics -- Chapter Two Unhomely Houses -- 'Homely' and 'Unhomely' -- Buried Alive -- Transparent Space -- The Dark Space -- The Window as an Opening to the Public Realm -- Chapter Three Imagining Taipei -- Modernism in Imagination -- The Unreal City -- The Disappearance of the Crowd -- An Invisible Persona -- The Urban Uncanny -- Gender Space -- Estrangement -- Chapter Four Homelands as Shifting Ground -- Yearning for the Lost Origin -- Quest for a Mythic Origin -- Searching for a Cultural Identity -- The Uncanniness of Homecoming -- Traveling as Collecting of One's Identity -- Making Exile His Homeland -- The Origin is a Shifting Ground -- Finding Stability in Instability -- Chapter Five Imagined Literary Community: Language, -- Memory and Nature -- Horizontal Comradeship -- Vertical Comradeship -- Language as Home -- Fabricating Memories -- Return to Nature -- Homeland (Re)located -- Chapter Six Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.