The latest addition to my website is Syaman Rapongan‘s 天空的眼睛 (Eyes Of The Ocean). This is not a novel but more a creative autobiography. It tells the story of.Syaman Rapongan, who is from Orchid Island a small island between Taiwan and Philippines which has been colonised bythe Japanese, the Chinese and the Taiwanese. It is … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Kaori Lai‘s 白色畫像 (Portraits in White). This consists of three novellas which focus on three different people who lived in Taiwan during the dictatorship. The book aims to show how difficult it was for people at that time before democracy took hold in Taiwan. The first book is … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Guixing Zhang‘s 傀儡花 (Elephant Herd). Zhang is a Malaysian born Chinese speaker who moved to Taiwan and was naturalised Taiwanese. However his novels are set primarily in Sarawak, Malaysia. This one is about Shicai who is called the boy whom we meet when young and also when older. … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Yao-Chang Chen‘s 傀儡花 (Puppet Flower). The novel is primarily set in Taiwan in 1867 when Taiwan is partially controlled by the the Qing Dynasty and partially by the indigenous tribes. Various foreign powers – Netherlands, Portugal, Britain and the US have been involved, though the US less so … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Lo Yi-Chin‘s 遠方 (Faraway). Our hero, also called Lo Yi-Chin, is a Taiwanese novelist. His father left China in 1949, abandoning his family, and fled to Taiwan where he started a new family. He has since been back and has now gone on a tour when he has … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Ta-wei Chi‘s 膜 (Membranes). This novel is a queer transgender climate-change Taiwanese novel set in the twenty-second century. Everyone now lives under the sea because of climate change. We follow the story of Momo, the top skincare specialist in T City. Momo lives a solitary life, seeing only … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Sakinu Ahronglong‘s 山豬 (Hunter School). Ahronglong belongs to the Paiwan people, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan and this is basically his story and the story of his people and their attempts to preserve their way of life. He does this by telling tales of himself, his … Read more