Gong Wei-hua, a second-generation immigrant entomologist from China, and Aramura Kiichi, an amateur Japanese photographer, met in Taiping Mountain, Yilan, in their common search for the Dream Butterfly.
After rounds of conversations, the two met a faceless butterfly hunter. They become fellow travelers. The butterfly hunter's lost voice gradually revealed his experience of the White Terror after several strange events. Does what happen in the forest stay in the forest? Did someone hear it?
She lost her memory, but she can synchronize with your mind. A cyberpunk adventure set in the “Silicon Island” of Taiwan, SYNC: The Stolen Prototype tells a story of a teenage Austronesian girl who fights her way through big tech and security conglomerates in search of her identity.
Dawn tells the story of a Taiwanese lesbian brought up in the 1980s and 90s. Hers is a journey of self-healing and discovery of how to reconcile with the world as she learns to be kinder to herself. Leaving her in-the-closet Southern Taiwan teenage life, she passes through and experiences the French LGBTQ+ community during Covid-19 and comes back to a Taiwan where gay marriage has already been legalized.
Narrativesaw is a small publishing house dedicated to building dreamspaces. We publish science fictions, epic poetry, and contemporary short stories. We aim to provide holistic transmedia products and experiences to our readers.
Tōkhiu Books is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of comics as an art form. We champion works that not only expand the creative possibilities of the medium but also engage critically with theories in visual culture.
With an inclusive and forward-thinking approach, we collaborate with authors from diverse national and cultural backgrounds—such as Kuchixo, Komatsu Shinya, Silki, and Anna Haifisch—whose works exemplify the poetic, provocative, and formally innovative potential of comics.
Thoughts are with "Us".
We strive to spark more curiosity about the ""beauty of thinking"". Combining publishing and media, we offer readers diverse artistic perspectives and insights into life, while also bridging the multifaceted promotion of reading and publishing in future endeavors.
FILMAHOLIC is a leading film magazine based in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2017, we’ve published over 2,000 articles with contributions from 200+ film critics, covering reviews, interviews, and festival reports. Our platform reaches 100,000 monthly online visitors and 80k+ social followers. We also publish a quarterly print edition, with 10,000 copies distributed annually.
PASSEPARTOUT 巴斯巴度 is a French-Taiwanese publishing house whose bilingual publications are all in traditional Chinese and French. Within the pages of our large-format journals and small books, cultures—Asian and European—intersect, as do genres: poetry, literature, music, comics, video games, and more.
In short, what we aim to do is “create a collage without glue—in other words, the equivalent of a picture in a dream,” as the poet Gérard Macé once wrote about the painter Henri Rousseau.
PASSEPARTOUT 巴斯巴度 also produces cultural content across various media.
Sharky Chen, an Independent publisher known for his creativity and efficiency in the Taiwanese publishing industry, reflects on the paradox of loving a job yet feeling resentful. Despite his passion for books, he realized that excessive love for work can lead to self-doubt. This guide, born from personal struggle, aims to help others overcome the toxicity of work, returning them to a joyful career.
