Elephant Herd

Guixing Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing, whose distinctive style evokes the ... Lees meer

Faraway

Yi-Chin Lo

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin's Faraway , a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his coma... Lees meer

Orphan of Asia

Zhuoliu Wu

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational syst... Lees meer

The Last of the Whampoa Breed

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all C... Lees meer

Love and Revolution

Ping Lu

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• "Death is inevitably the end of a journey. Death also allows the journey to go back to the beginning." In this bold novel, one of Taiwan's most celebr... Lees meer

Memories of Mount Qilai

Yang Mu

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan, and its mountains, especially Mount Qilai, were deeply inspirational for the young poet Yang Mu. A pl... Lees meer

Puppet Flower

Yao-Chang Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• In 1867, an American merchant ship, the Rover , sank off the coast of southern Taiwan. Fourteen sailors reached the shore, where almost all were kille... Lees meer

Rose, Rose, I Love You

Chen-Ho Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective--and common sense--at the prospect of fleecing a... Lees meer

Slow Boat to China and Other Stories

Kim Chew Ng

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• "Dream and Swine and Aurora," "Deep in the Rubber Forest," "Fish Bones," "Allah's Will," "Monkey Butts, Fire, and Dangerous Things"--Ng Kim Chew's sto... Lees meer

The Membranes

Ta-Wei Chi

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom a... Lees meer

Faraway

Yi-Chin Lo

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• In Taiwanese writer Lo Yi-Chin's Faraway , a fictionalized version of the author finds himself stranded in mainland China attempting to bring his coma... Lees meer

City of the Queen

Shu-Ching Shih

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• From its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British empire, and then ascended to its p... Lees meer

Remains of Life

Wu Wu He

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• On October 27, 1930, during a sports meet at Musha Elementary School on an aboriginal reservation in the mountains of Taiwan, a bloody uprising occurr... Lees meer

The Old Capital

T'Ien-Hsin Chu

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, ... Lees meer

Running Mother and Other Stories

Songfen Guo

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Guo Songfen's short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few mode... Lees meer

Wild Kids

Ta-Chun Chang

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the fi... Lees meer

Elephant Herd

Guixing Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Elephant Herd is a vivid and captivating novel by the Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) writer Zhang Guixing, whose distinctive style evokes the ... Lees meer

Hawk of the Mind

Yang Mu

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystallin... Lees meer

Frontier Taiwan

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of mod... Lees meer

Frontier Taiwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Taiwan has evolved dramatically from a little-known island to an internationally acclaimed economic miracle and thriving democracy. The history of mod... Lees meer

The Lost Garden

Ang Li

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Ying... Lees meer

My South Seas Sleeping Beauty

Guixing Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chin... Lees meer

Puppet Flower

Yao-Chang Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• In 1867, an American merchant ship, the Rover , sank off the coast of southern Taiwan. Fourteen sailors reached the shore, where almost all were kille... Lees meer

Notes of a Desolate Man

T'Ien-Wen Chu

• Paperback | Engels | Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
• Winner of the coveted China Times Novel Prize, this postmodern, first-person tale of a contemporary Taiwanese gay man reflecting on his life, loves, a... Lees meer