英文摘要 |
“Where are you now? I’m on my way!” My eyes were searching for a figure in plain T-shirt and baggy trousers, so I was not sure, until she waved at me, if the woman appearing in a fitting dress and high heels was indeed Hồ Minh Mai.1 I had lost count of our meetings since our first, in 2009, at Minh Mai’s second-hand bookshop in this narrow alley in southern Taiwan. I could not tell, either, how many times I visited Ngô Xuân Phuong at her Vietnamese restaurant, and how many bowls of phở, Vietnamese soup noodle, Nguyễn Thi Minh Thu has treated me to whenever I came to see her. What I do know is that after my first meeting with Nguyễn Kim Hồng in 2015, Kim Hồng had completed, together with her husband, filming four undocumented Vietnamese migrant workers who “ran away” from their contract and found agricultural jobs in the mountainous area in central Taiwan. Entitled “See You, Lovable Strangers,” their documentary is now screened at non-commercial venues in Taiwan. |