“Stars Through the Soul” was mainly created during the period from 1998 to 1999. At the turn of the century, this book vividly presents the Taiwanese spirit of drifting souls of the time. Based on “strolling” and “drifting”, two typical characters in the society of immigration, and combine Ulysses image as the inner tone, the poems showed the life of common people. For example, Dihua Street, minced pork rice and paddy field are such symbols we can find in the work. This old-kind strong love is the way the author manipulated to say good-bye to the 20th century.
The book collects 17 untypical monologues. Through writing, the everyday scenery of words and the faces of family and friends thus can be settled. The author picked and sewed up those fragments in her life. For her, the things that can’t be settled at the time won’t be settled forever. Therefore, those things can’t be settled transformed into words and turn into life in her writing.
Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her thirties, she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary traditions. Her journey takes her to Iran, where she seeks out a local woman to learn the secrets of Persian cuisine.
A rising scourge to England’s social peace and multiculturalism, the English Defence League (EDL) has violently protested against Islam since its inception. In the fantastically daring Angry White People, Hsiao-Hung Pai follows a group of individuals who got caught up in the wave of far-right street movements that began in 2009. Pai investigated the rise of the EDL and other extremist organizations, falling in with several of their members and observing their day-to-day lives.
In the 1980s, Taiwan’s economy was booming and the social structure was rapidly transformed. But at the same time, the cultural and spiritual parts of people’s lives were descending. Therefore, with concerns for social vulnerable groups and aiming at cultural, environmental, and political issues, the “Human” magazine was created. The author Tsai Ming-Te was involved with the affairs of the magazine from the beginning of the foundation to the very end.
The White Terror – almost forty years of political repressionand military rule that stood as the longest period of martiallaw in modern world history when it was lifted in 1987. It pre-datedand pre-defined Taiwanese democracy, shaping the consciousnessof everyone who endured it. Yet, as with all great and terribleevents in history, trends, periods, and other proper nouns tend toefface the individual psychologies that drive and destroy them.
