A number of heterotopias coexist in Taiwanese writer Chu T’ien-hsin’snovella “The Old Capital”: spaces of memory, reality, history; and here Ianalyze the female narrator in the story as a “heterotopic agent.” Building onMichel Foucault’s initial conceptualization of heterotopia as literature, Iexamine the agency of Chu’s narrator in terms of the operation of walking, theact of seeing, and the art of remembering, which, I argue, make theconstruction of a heterotopic space possible. The purpose of my Foucauldianreading of “The Old Capital” is twofold. On the one hand, it seeks toreconceptualize “heterotopia” in relation to the human subject. On the otherhand, it intends to cast a new light on the creative agency of Chu,substantiated in her attempt to rewrite the past, live the present, and realize thefuture. From the perspective of “heterotopic agent,” we may further entertain acreative hermeneutics of contemporary Taiwanese identity.