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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” ~Franz Kafka

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Sep 16, 20201 min read

Buying Our New Fiction

The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all...

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Jun 20, 20202 min read

Coming Fiction from Taiwan— Indigenous Voices

Colonialism and poverty are still living experiences and memories to many Taiwanese. In literary works, the (dis)continuation of...

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Jun 19, 20201 min read

Human Rights in Literature – A Video Project for Writers All Over the World

Launched by C.J. Anderson-Wu, a writer from Taiwan, this global video project about issues of human rights in literature is calling for...

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Jun 19, 20202 min read

Irish Writer Maurice Manning Reads “Field Hospital” In Memory of Taiwanese writer Chung Chao-Cheng

Chung Chao-Cheng was born and educated during the Japanese Colonial Period, his mother tongue was Hakka, and Japanese was his first...

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Jun 19, 20202 min read

Tastes of Nostalgia – short stories by Taiwanese writers

The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all...

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN LITERATURE – A VIDEO PROJECT CALLS FOR WRITERS

June 15th, 2020

Since online tools are more and more commonly used for meetings or classes, Human Rights in Literature project invites writers to make videos to talk about human rights concern they ever have included in their literary works.

Launched by C.J. Anderson-Wu, a writer from Taiwan, this global video project about issues of human rights in literature is calling for writers all over the world to participate.

https://www.wfmj.com/story/42248107/human-rights-in-literature-a-video-project-calls-for-writers-source-agenda-21st-century-taiwan

COMING FICTION FROM TAIWAN— INDIGENOUS VOICES

April 26th, 2020

Walis Nokan and Gan Yao-Ming's literary writing sharply points out the deprived and dispossessed status of indigenous peoples in Taiwan, as well as the injustice indigenous peoples all over the world are facing throughout their history.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4662732#ixzz6PzLpLEHH

IRISH WRITER MAURICE MANNING READS “FIELD HOSPITAL” IN MEMORY OF TAIWANESE WRITER CHUNG CHAO-CHENG

June 9th, 2020

Chung Chao-Cheng, the most respected Taiwanese Hakka writer, passed away in May, he was 96 years old. In memory of Chung Chao-Cheng’s passing, Irish writer Maurice Manning, the author of “The Kilderry Files”, made a recording of his reading Chung’s “Field Hospital”, a short story about young soldiers during the end of WWII.

https://www.mylubbocktv.com/story/42227422/irish-writer-maurice-manning-reads-field-hospital-in-memory-of-taiwanese-writer-chung-chao-cheng-source-agenda-21st-century-taiwan

TASTES OF NOSTALGIA – SHORT STORIES BY TAIWANESE WRITERS

Los Angeles, CA April 29th, 2020

The stories in Tastes of Nostalgia include regime transfer, political oppression, beliefs, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding and discrimination. All these can be found in these two marvelous short stories.
The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries passing on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars.