(Taiwan version) My country has disappeared

So, do you finally understand what a country is?
Before everything disappeared, I met you. From then on, I knew that there would be at least one person who would remember that vanished country with me.

“I finally found a place where I felt like I belonged, and it changed beyond recognition within a few years.”
Collapse is the subtitle of growth. The beautiful parts that built up our youth gradually disappeared, including you and my country.

This book begins with delicate childhood memories and miscellaneous recollections of teachers and friends, and takes migration as its theme, from the metropolis of Taipei to the tropical town of Bukit Mertajam, from a world of pure Chinese to a country of mixed languages; it also uses love as the theme, telling the story of a boy who returns to the South and falls in love with a girl who grew up in the South and later came to Taiwan.

Lin Weidi writes about the school he loved so much and the Chinese education he cherishes so dearly in Malaysia, gathering memories from his travels between Taipei, Penang, Manchester, and Singapore. His work blends fact and fiction, and interweaves ideals with exile.

“After traveling halfway around the world, I realized that the child who grew up in Taiwan still lives in my heart.”

Lin Weidi

His ancestral home is Huilai, Guangdong, and he was born in Penang, Malaysia. He graduated from Taipei Municipal Ren'ai Primary School, Bukit Mertajam Ngee Sin Independent High School, Malaysia, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manchester, UK, and a postgraduate diploma in occupational medicine from the National University of Singapore.

He has written the essay collections "Before the First Book", "Arrogant", "Nothing to Do" (Malaysia You Ren Publishing House), "Between Two Doctors" (co-authored with Wu Meiyun), "Real Doctor Fake Literary Youth" (Malaysia Da Jiang Publishing House), the novel "The Disappearance of Your and My Country" (Malaysia San San Publishing House) and "So" (Taiwan Xiuwei Information Technology).

He currently works at Raffles Hospital in Singapore. He is also a director of Grassroots Book Room in Singapore, a director of General Publishing House in Malaysia, and the publisher of the Malaysian literary reading magazine "Monsoon Belt".

Foreword: Why is youth so bitter? What exactly did Liao Hongqiang lose? Preface to the Taiwanese edition

Your country disappeared, my country disappeared. After everything disappeared, I was beaten and wronged. Too wronged. It made me want to eat plastic wings. Wedding blessings. Running goddess. Age is not a problem. Melancholy. Weight is not a pressure. Approaching infinite bright flashes. When the light finally comes, cowardly. One-thirtieth. Seven-hundred-and-thirtieth. Taipei Station. Red eyes. Wine and blood. Accepting defeat. When death comes, period. Bald head remembers true love.
Dear Master,