Week Two: Austenworld Case Study of a Storyverse

Writing Assignment from First Class:

I am Roger Lin, coming from Taiwan. My mother language is Chinese and also grow up with the culture of Chinese.  Therefore the most familiar literature for me is Chinese. However, when I am growing up I started to gets into the Japanese culture, both literature, and media. Japanese literature and media became my priority study. I have read lots of classic novels and also modern works of them. Another media that I get in a lot is Japanese anime and manga. It is the biggest interest of mine. After I get in high school I started practice English and therefore also started my reading of western literature. The most of the western literature that I read is the classic novel like Pride and Prejudice. In my point of view, I feel like the culture and feeling between western and Asia is a lot of difference. I didn’t get this kind of culture shock when I get from Chinese to Japanese. Asia culture is more introverted and exquisite. Western in other hands is much open minded and innovated. I always feel like because of the cultural differences that I can get a more unique view of different culture’s literature and arts. The experience is fun and fresh. However, sometimes there is just some point that I feel like I can’t really understand as the native people do. Something like joke or feeling is maybe more made for the people who grow with the culture, I guess. Anyways, my point here is that with the Chinese background and Japanese and English study, my point of view is to literature might be more neutral and comprehensive.