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The City as Phantom: Preserving Edward Yang’s Taipei Story in the Internet Archive

The Internet Archive hosts digital copies of more recent books with the same title that explore different facets of the Taipei experience: taipei story internet archive

No official soundtrack is on the Archive, but user-uploaded rips include: The City as Phantom: Preserving Edward Yang’s Taipei

To understand the importance of the entries, one must first understand the film’s tortured distribution history. Released in 1985, Taipei Story stars Hou Hsiao-hsien (another titan of Taiwanese cinema) as Lung, a nostalgic former Little League baseball star, and Tsai Chin as Chin, a modern career woman. The film is a stunning architectural portrait of a Taipei drowning in neon signs, construction sites, and economic anxiety. Yang uses the city itself as a character,

Yang uses the city itself as a character, employing a visual language of glass, steel, and shadow to emphasize isolation. Aesthetics of Emptiness

If you visit the Internet Archive to watch Taipei Story , here is what you should pay attention to: