Blogs in April 2020

Wild Kids 26th April 2020

These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan’s most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang...

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Three-Legged Horse 26th April 2020

Here are twelve moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island’s most popular writers, Cheng Ch’ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is...

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Taipei People 26th April 2020

Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce’s Dubliners. Patrick Hanan praises the volume as -the highest achievement in the contemporary Chinese story.- Henry Miller considers Pai Hsien-yung...

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A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers 26th April 2020

Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a...

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Orphan of Asia 26th April 2020

Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu’s...

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