<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[ming-chun-hsieh]]></title><description><![CDATA[ming-chun-hsieh]]></description><link>https://www.mingchunhsieh.org/writing</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:43:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mingchunhsieh.org/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Layers of Silence]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine a single frame, silence filling the background. For now, I have organized silence into seven possible states: processing, observing, uncertainty, politeness, self-protection, resistance, and exclusion. One student may still be taking in information, organizing ideas, or moving between languages. Another may be observing the order in which people speak, sensing the relationships among classmates, and trying to understand the rules of the classroom. One may not yet have formed a...]]></description><link>https://www.mingchunhsieh.org/post/layers-of-silence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6adf539484fa5b2665a56ec0</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:26:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sammi Hsieh</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Unease Left by the Booker-Winning Taiwan Travelogue]]></title><description><![CDATA[Are We Obsessed with "Translating"  Difference in Architecture and Education? When I first opened the table of contents of Taiwan Travelogue, it appeared to be a translated 1938 travelogue by the Japanese author Chizuko Aoyama. It reads like a culinary tale set during the Japanese colonial period, using the longitudinal railway as its spatial axis and local cuisine as its connecting nodes, documenting the interactions between the Japanese author and her Taiwanese interpreter. Yet, the book...]]></description><link>https://www.mingchunhsieh.org/post/the-unease-left-by-the-booker-winning-taiwan-travelogue</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6adf1c8184fa5b2665a502eb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:34:15 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sammi Hsieh</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>