1. Faith Conquers All (
By Tai Cheng-chih (
This is a collection of inspirational essays depicting how successful people in different professions pursue their dreams.
2. A Girl Called Feeling (
By Hiyawu
The story began six years ago when the boy accidentally met the cute girl at a cram school. He painstakingly courted her, but he found himself loved by another girl. How should he decide?
3. Cards on the Table
By Agatha Christie
Translated by Sha Hui (沙輝)
One of Christie's best works about four detectives, four potential murderers, and one corpse. Shaitana invites four detectives and four people he suspects may have gotten away with murder. Later, when the guests prepare to leave, it is discovered that Shaitana has been fatally stabbed. Who's the murderer?
4. Murder on the Orient Express
By Agatha Christie, Translated by Chen Yao-kuang
A remarkable set of characters are brought together for a journey on the Orient Express train as it travels from Istanbul to Paris. But who murdered the American passenger? How will Hercule Poirot, the dapper Belgian detective, unravel the mystery?
5. Goodbye, Kiulu
By Kengo Ishiguro (石黑謙吾) and Ryouhei Akimoto (秋元良平)
Translated by Lin Fang-erh (林芳兒)
This is the story of a guide dog for the blind, embellished with beautiful black-and-white photos. The book has sold close to a million copies in Japan.
6. The Bible of Reincarnation: Part I (
By Carmelita Chao
A mystical novel from the Hong Kong-born teacher of meditation who spent much of her life in Taiwan and is now based in the San Francisco area.
7. A Guide to Happiness
By Wu Tan-ju
What kind of happiness do you want? The famous essayist published her first account of her own marital love. This is the guide you will need in the quest for happiness.
8. Little S' Braces Diary
By Hsu Hsi-ti
This is a hotchpotch diary of cartoons sketches, photos and poetry from pop singer and TV host Hsu Hsi-ti
9. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 (美麗境界)
By Sylvia Nasar
Translated by Fu Shih-che
Written by economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar, this is a book about John Nash -- one of the world's most brilliant mathematicians. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economic practice.
10. Incontinence of Love
By Jen Erh Hsiung
Another comic-essay book about love and relationships.
11. This is My Answer
By Hiyawu
A romance about a young man falling in love with a young girl who asks him to do a questionaire in front of a certain Eslite bookstore.
12. Irish Coffee
By Tsai Chi-heng
Short- and medium-length romantic stories initially published on-line.
13. My Mother's Golden Watch
By Chi-chun
This is a collection of essays about the author's memories of her childhood and the time she shared with her mother.
14. Dream-catcher
By Liu Yung
A collection of 54 very short essays and stories from the maestro of inspirational writings. This one covers inspiration you can find in religion, plants, animals and love, among other things.
15. Say it to Your Heart II
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By Liu Yung
A sequel to the successful inspirational book from the New York-based essayist Liu Yung.
16. Lavender
By Tu Hui-chuan
Another book of illustrated scribblings from a young triumvirate -- on the usual subject of young love. This one bears the distinction of refined art work and full-color printing.
17. Secret Lover at Paris Cafe
By Cheng Hwa-jiuan
The Germany-based author brings more amusing and heart-warming stories about life and relationships from her adopted home.
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
By J.K. Rowling, Translated by Peng Chien-wen
Harry, now 14, comes in touch with his godfather-in-hiding, Sirius Black, while Lord Voldemort and his sinister Death Eaters lurk on the Dark Side. Meanwhile, Hogwarts vies with two other magicians' schools in a Triwizard Tournament. Could Harry be one of the lucky contenders?
A few weeks ago I found myself at a Family Mart talking with the morning shift worker there, who has become my coffee guy. Both of us were in a funk over the “unseasonable” warm weather, a state of mind known as “solastalgia” — distress produced by environmental change. In fact, the weather was not that out of the ordinary in boiling Central Taiwan, and likely cooler than the temperatures we will experience in the near-future. According to the Taiwan Adaptation Platform, between 1957 and 2006, summer lengthened by 27.8 days, while winter shrunk by 29.7 days. Winter is not
Taiwan’s post-World War II architecture, “practical, cheap and temporary,” not to mention “rather forgettable.” This was a characterization recently given by Taiwan-based historian John Ross on his Formosa Files podcast. Yet the 1960s and 1970s were, in fact, the period of Taiwan’s foundational building boom, which, to a great extent, defined the look of Taiwan’s cities, determining the way denizens live today. During this period, functionalist concrete blocks and Chinese nostalgia gave way to new interpretations of modernism, large planned communities and high-rise skyscrapers. It is currently the subject of a new exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Modern
March 25 to March 31 A 56-year-old Wu Li Yu-ke (吳李玉哥) was straightening out her artist son’s piles of drawings when she inadvertently flipped one over, revealing the blank backside of the paper. Absent-mindedly, she picked up a pencil and recalled how she used to sketch embroidery designs for her clothing business. Without clients and budget or labor constraints to worry about, Wu Li drew freely whatever image came to her mind. With much more free time now that her son had found a job, she found herself missing her home village in China, where she
In recent years, Slovakia has been seen as a highly democratic and Western-oriented Central European country. This image was reinforced by the election of the country’s first female president in 2019, efforts to provide extensive assistance to Ukraine and the strengthening of relations with Taiwan, all of which strengthened Slovakia’s position within the European Union. However, the latest developments in the country suggest that the situation is changing rapidly. As such, the presidential elections to be held on March 23 will be an indicator of whether Slovakia remains in the Western sphere of influence or moves eastward, notably towards Russia and