The fifth installment in the Rainbow Splendor Land series follows two young adults in their twenties as they navigate the confusing terrain of early adulthood—facing difficult choices, career doubts, and the tug-of-war between passion and profession. Set against the vibrant backdrop of a night market brimming with warmth and human connection, the story gently explores how people begin to shape their futures. Not just a tale of the two main characters, this could just as well be the story of you, me, and the friends we’ve grown up alongside.
Drawing on the Ministry of Education’s Taiwanese Southern Min dictionary, the author compiles a rich collection of Taiwanese folk expressions, including proverbs and slang, shaped by extensive life experience. Each entry is presented in a clear, itemized format and accompanied by distinctive commentary that reflects the author’s unique perspective. Beyond the entries themselves, explanations and narrative descriptions are written in standard Mandarin, ensuring accessibility for readers who are not familiar with Taiwanese.
"Rainbow Splendor Land" is a six-part BL manga series created with the backdrop of Taiwan’s legalization of same-sex marriage. Each volume intertwines seasonal elements, life challenges across different age groups, and the unique social landscape of Taiwan, using BL as a lens to explore diverse perspectives on love and marriage.
A gay couple practiced their slashie lifestyle as working in theater industry and running an LGBTQ+-friendly guesthouse. With the guests sharing stories, they picked up the precious memories of their romantic journey and witnessed the achieving moment of the same-sex marriage legalization movement in Taiwan.
Zhong Rui-Ming and Zhou Yu-Yan were old acquaintances from college, and they once had an unnoticed ambiguous affection for each other. Unexpectedly, many years later, they crossed paths again after their respective divorces, and once more, they found themselves gradually immersed in this indescribable emotion. How will they express their feelings this time? "Rainbow Splendor Land" is a BL manga series created with the premise of Taiwan's legalized same-sex marriage, incorporating Taiwan's four seasons and social scenery.
Selected for the 2024 Books from Taiwan（BFT）2.0 Fully translated into English
Constructed on the site of a former Japanese air force base, the Huwei military family settlement housed Nationalist soldiers and their dependents who retreated to Taiwan in 1949. The four tales in this graphic novel move through various periods of time, weaving together the lives of the residents of Huwei with the voices of ghosts from the past, thereby addressing the complex history of the Americans, Japanese, mainland Chinese, and local Taiwanese who have all left their mark there.
This is a sorrowful narrative by a non-typical foreign spouse within a traditional family structure.
It integrates the author's life journey through photography, prints, oil painting, and text.
Is there only one social status for foreign spouses?
Beyond childbirth, household chores, and economic contributions, foreign spouses write the stories of everything around them with their lives. Some use writing and artistic creation to document these trajectories of life.
Maniniwei says：
"My hometown is not a place, is people.
Eclipses is a poetry book with a post-modernist worldbuilding framework. Fantasy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, games, and myths, the book is devoted to those in need for love.
Yu-Xi
Yu-Xi is born in Guangzhou, raised in Hong Kong, and is studying literature and creative writing in Taiwan. He is in the shortlist of a publishing grant award with this title.
Taiwan’s first interdisciplinary anthology on women’s abortion experiences, curated by writer Wu Xiaole. Combining fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, and essays across literature, law, history, and medicine, it explores the emotional and intellectual journeys of reproductive choice. Part One presents creative works reflecting intergenerational dialogues and philosophical debates. Part Two shares thirteen women’s real stories, alongside legal, historical, and medical perspectives on abortion in Taiwan.
