Yesterday's Book Author: Ma Shifang Publisher: New Classic Culture

Four years ago, James Chan wrote a special article recommending Ma Shifang's first book, "Underground Nostalgia Blues". He said that Ma Shifang was like an old soul in a young body. When he writes about music, you can't help but find those songs and listen to them again and again; when he writes about the past, he will take you back to the once passionate youth. His radio broadcasts are recorded and collected by music fans on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and even pirated and sold privately; his words are always in the depths of our memories, surging with the tide of the times. He found a deep language for music. Without Ma Shifang, Taiwan's musical language would be so pale and cold. In 2010, Ma Shifang, who is about to turn 40, presented his second book "Yesterday's Book" to the long-awaited readers. This important representative figure in Taiwan's cultural fields such as music, broadcasting, and literary creation included more than 40 of his writings since 2002 in his second collection of essays, and more than 30 frames of photos of his collection of pop music-related objects, writing about music, memories, and the resonance between personal life and the times.

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About the Author

Ma Shifang

Broadcaster and writer, born in Taipei in the summer of 1971.

At the age of 15, he became fascinated with old rock music because of a Beatles compilation album. From then on, he dreamed of making a living with writing and music. During his college years, he edited the "National Taiwan University Humanities News" and introduced classic rock music on the "China Broadcasting Corporation Youth Network". Many listeners of the program recorded every episode and have kept it to this day. On the eve of graduation, he co-edited "The 100 Best Albums of Taiwan Pop Music from 1975 to 1993" with his classmates in the club. Although it was a student work, the selection of topics and production were extraordinary, and it became an important document in music history.

In 1995, he compiled "Eternal Weiyang Song: A 20-year Commemorative Album of Modern Folk Songs/Campus Songs", which became a must-read reference book for studying Taiwanese pop music. At the age of 27, he co-authored "One Hundred Reasons to Survive in Taipei" with a friend, which became a sensation and pioneered the trend of publishing in this genre. In 2000, he founded "543 Music Station", which crossed over into community management and independent music publishing industries, and won the Golden Melody Award and the Chinese Music Media Award. In 2006, he published the essay collection "Underground Nostalgia Blues", which won the "Reader's Book of the Year Award" from the United Daily News, was nominated for the Golden Tripod Award "Best Literature and Language Book Award", and was selected for the Taipei International Book Fair "Books from Taiwan 2008". In 2009, he continued his previous career and co-edited "The 200 Best Albums of Taiwan Pop Music 1975-2005", which once again caused a sensation in the cultural circles on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Since 2002, he has hosted the "Music 543" program on News98, conducting in-depth interviews with musicians and often arranging live broadcasts on the air. It has been repeatedly praised as the best pop music program in the Chinese world.

Ma Shifang currently lives in Taipei and continues to write essays, columns and music texts. Her blog is: honeypie.org

Foreword: To my future self

◎Series 1: Fireworks and seeds of flame <br data-mce-fragment="1">A sixth grader's youth song history How I became a broadcaster Those who are used to loneliness In 1976, the Coke bottle sang another song Thoughts start to say goodbye, don't say goodbye - the twists and turns of the two songs are about to go home Fireworks and seeds of flame The hometown that is both far and near

◎ Album 2: The afterglow is still warm <br data-mce-fragment="1">　I think of Pink Floyd and a person nodding his head. If you could hear me that night, I was at a concert in Japan with my Japanese friends. Why was Dylan so cool?
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◎Volume 3: Looking Back <br data-mce-fragment="1">What I remember about Taiping IslandReturning home, leaving homeCigarettes are getting worse with each generationResentmentEyebrowsCommentsThe smell of the timesCopying machines and I cannot live without scaleTransparent typefaceThe temperament of the font does not necessarily have to be copperplateThe typeface is not equal to the contentSo-called going out to playThirty years laterHair colorDodgeballDo you care?Don't care?Looking back

Appendix: Postscript to the Underground Homesickness Letter