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.
The author of this book interviewed the propeller of Beijing Da-Shan-Zi Art Festival and 798 Art Zone, Huang Rui, talking about the advantages of 798 and the difficulties they need to deal with in the future. Besides, the author also made marvelous conversation with the runners of international galleries, Chinese galleries, and the new Taiwanese galleries, focusing on their point of views toward 798 art zone’s future and how they view Chinese contemporary art.
“Under the River” is the only prose written by Contemporary Chinese Contribution Award winner, Ye Fu. The poet, Yang Tu, described Ye Fu’s work, “in the articles discussing about politics, most of them are trying to criticize others and there are rare works reviewing themselves. However, Ye Fu carefully examines himself from his education in the childhood, his cruel inner personalities, to his bizarre story about the family.
Hu Shih and Chen Du-Xiu advocated science and democracy and promoted a new cultural movement. However, the May 4th movement propelled the cultural activity to the peak and made a huge progress of science and education in China.
The May 4th movement in 1919 is an important event in the Chinese history in 20th Century. There are more than 3000 students demonstrating in the street in Beijing.
This book collects and classifies Hu Shih’s philosophy, the pith and marrow of his articles and speeches, connecting with Taiwan’s national status quo.
This book is one of the famous long Fictions from contemporary Brazilian writer, Erico Verissimo. Ever since the Fiction had been published from 1965, it is always the all-time favorite Fiction on the chart and has been republished for 13 times just in the city where Verissimo lives. After absorbing all the attention in literature and publishing industry, it is further translated into Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian etc.
‘If you can only bring a book with you when the apocalypse is approaching, I would love to carry Vajra Sutra & Heart Sutra till the end of the world’.
The Heart of Prajna Paramita Sutra translated by Master Xuan Zang in Tang Dynasty has the most refining language and the most understandable ideology in all of the Buddhism classics. Through Master Hong Yi’s explanation, readers may conceive and perceive the wisdom and oracles in the Heart Sutra.
Akabo’s plot lies in the period between Japanese colonization to KMT government. Five political oppressed victims underwent through those huge historical events, such as the incident of Er-Er-Ba (February 28th), White Terror and the martial law etc. In the plot, the narrators recall the education they took, movements and turning points in the past. By narrating the memorable moments in their lives and learning from the historical experiences, Akabo enables all the readers reconsider the status quo and future of Taiwan.
