Against the background of localization in Taiwan, The Ancient Capitals, by Chu Tien-hsin, a writer from the provinces, is a text of fiction that, both a political and cultural critique, writes fragments of historical memory by shifting in a geographical space and breaking the linear structure of history, spreading out the footsteps and memories between Taipei and Kyoto in a story of arrivals for an appointment. In the switches between the two ancient capitals, the narrator chains up footsteps scattered in the two spaces with paths visible or hidden. The way multiple spaces are narrated produces spatial pitfalls so that, within and without the text, different features and historical sources of Kyoto become the primary points for exploring the significance of the space. With Kyoto contrasted with Taipei, in a relationship of the colonizer and the colonized, the narrator revisits Taiwan with a colonial map in pursuit of colonial memory by deconstructing the mirror image of the“Peach Flower Source”that reflects postcolonial reflections upon the situation of Taiwan.%在台湾本土化背景下，外省籍作家朱天心的《古都》是一个具有政治与文化双重批判性的小说文本。《古都》打破了历史的线性结构，以地理空间迁移转换书写零碎的历史记忆片段；通过一个赴约的故事将穿梭于台北与京都两座古都之间的足迹与记忆铺展开来。在两座古都空间场景切换中，叙事者以几条或隐或显的路线，分别串连起散落在两个时空中的足迹。多重空间的叙事方式制造出空间陷阱，文本内外，京都的不同面貌和历史渊源成为探讨这一空间意义的重点。由京都对照台北，在殖民者/被殖民者的关系中，叙事者持殖民地图重游台湾、追寻殖民记忆，解构了“桃花源”镜像，反映出对台湾处境的后殖民反思。
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