{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fbc94df57-ddd8-4917-b647-22bd71b29a01","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Season 6, Ep. 2: Home Sweet Home","description":"We recorded the latest episode of Saturday School a while ago, but fitting that we\u2019re posting it when I\u2019m actually in Taiwan! This season, we\u2019re exploring Asian films about Asian America, and this week, we\u2019re looking at the 1970 Taiwanese film \"Home Sweet Home,\" which gives a glimpse into why Taiwanese people of a certain generation would have wanted to come to America (masters and doctorate degrees) and their decisions to stay in America vs. come back to Taiwan.\n\n \n\nEven though neither of us were around in 1970s Taiwan, luckily this topic is something Brian has been researching for a decade. This film is mentioned in his new book, \u201cWorldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan,\u201d as are statistics like: In 1965, only 5% of Taiwanese people going abroad were coming back, so \u201cHome Sweet Home\u201d was part of a Taiwanese government propaganda push to convince its people that if they went abroad, they needed to return to help build the nation. By 1975, 25% were coming back.\n\n \n\nWe take the listener through a lot of the film in this episode, because it\u2019s hard to find in the US. It's amusing to us to see the characters talking about \u201ca Western scent\u201d some of these Taiwanese Americans exude. It's also funny that part of being Westernized involves becoming more sexually liberated/impure \u2013 a stereotype that we still see 50 years later in this year\u2019s Netflix series \"A Taiwanese Tale of Two Cities.\" And we bring it all back to Ang Lee, because that\u2019s what all Taiwanese Americans are required to do when discussing Taiwanese Americanness.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/daaa94e5-03df-4f9a-a161-f794eb9e691f/artworks-000541389159-3fpiew-t3000x3000.jpg"}