A swordswoman from Hong Kong and her local Taiwanese guide; their short trip of several days in Taipei turns into a bloody fight with touches of tenderness. She says: “The underworld is wherever I am.” People are involuntarily hauled into the underworld, and are mercilessly engulfed in it. What indeed is an underworld? This is a surreal martial arts novel, set in the modern days, but it actually tells a realistic story about personal growth, life and love.
3 stories in the past tense, about the ruthless passage from youth to
adulthood; an ongoing story in the present tense, about how love dwindles
and sinks; 4 forlorn funerals that will take place soon in the future. Between
the blooming and dying of love, and between life and death, there are
moments of slight happiness.
“Love Wandering” is a road novel. It‘s about a desolate train journey of 7 days
and nights. The train carries travelers to the “Love Island”, which is a mythical
place where it’s rumored that people’s deepest wishes would come true.
During the long journey, travelers are unconsciously drawn into their
innermost dark holes, where they themselves are ignorant of their existence.
Will they have the courage to face their deepest selves?
Creating poems just as cultivating the fields, found the aesthetics of human life. Huts, hedges and open fields, hitherto comprise logic and meanings. We cannot live without this fundamental activity. I am again thrilled by this aesthetics. Or should I say, the thrill has been in my heart.
This book provides an insider’s view on running an independent bookshop, “Small Small Bookshop”, reveals the challenges they met and shares the wisdoms they gain. It’s also a guidebook on the “ecology of bookshops”. For those who want to join bookshop industry, it may lead you to a shortcut.
This book contains firsthand interviews of publishers’ perspectives in life histories of a book, and their observations and responds to the depressions of publishing industry in Taiwan over decades. Readers would discover professional visions and efforts of all interviewed publishing houses/ publishers, and their possible developments in the future.
This poetry collection is completed by a mother and her bilingual child (Taiwanese and French)sh. It’s a letterpress-printed handmade book, with an album produced by musicians interpreting the poems. It’s a simple book to read and touch, and especially easy for adults to read and listen with children.
Embodies the first-hand interviews with 13 artists about their careers,, including Wang Mo-lin, Hu Tai-li, Ling yu, Huang Ting-Fu, Chung Yung-feng, Lo I-chun, Huang Chin-shu, Liglav A-wu, Wu Ming-yi, Lin Sheng-siang, Kao Chun-hung, Yannick Dauby, and Tsai Wan-hsuan.
CNEX is a non-governmental organization formed by those who love documentary films in Great china.
In 2008, CNEX produced 10 documentary films with the topic, “Dream and Hope”. Across the ocean and involving with China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, CNEX tried to embody the abstract concepts through touching the dream and hope between cities and country sides, sea side and the inland, youths and elders, past and then, culture and economy, tradition and contemporary, and soul and the material etc.
Chien-Chi is a disappearing name in the White Terror period. From an elementary school teacher to a peasant revolutionist with his violin, Chien-Chi is the initial leader of Taiwanese peasant revolution, starting the pages of civil rebel history.
Along with seeing Chien-Chi’s life in the book, we readers may also witness the situation in Taiwan before and after February 28th and further may get impressed by the social spirit.
