1. Super Nice to Me (
By Wu Ruo-chuan (
2. Don't Wear Out Your Love (
By Liu Yung (
3. 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. What to do?
4. Big-Mouthed A-Kuei (
By A-Kuei (
5. Death of a Writer (一個作家之死),
By Su Yu-chen (蘇玉珍)Half of this erotic novel is pulled from the author's real life, while the other half comes from her rich imagination of how a man lives a two-faced life among his wife and mistresses.
6. The Bible of Reincarnation: Part I (葬書:上),
By Carmelita Chao (趙慧娟) 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. This is My Answer (
By Hiyawu (
8. Faith Conquers All (
By Tai Cheng-chih (
9. Goodbye, Kiulu (
By Kengo Ishiguro (
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.
10. A Love Story in Maokung (
By Hiyawu (
A missent message on Hiyawu's mobile phone allows him get to know a sweet college girl. This is Hiyawu's second novel of love.
11. A Guide to Happiness (
By Wu Tan-ju (
12. Billie the Crazy Chicken (
By Wang Chiu-yi (
13. Say it to Your Heart II (
By Liu Yung (
A sequel to the successful inspirational book from the New York-based essayist Liu Yung.
14. Vicious Girls (
By Mica (
15. A Game of Thrones (
By George Martin
Translated by Tan Kuang-lei (譚光磊) This is the first book in George Martin's projected six-volume fantasy saga. Martin's Seven Kingdoms resemble England during the Wars of the Roses, with the Stark and Lannister families standing in for the Yorks and Lancasters. These two families and their struggle to control the Iron Throne, resulting in much bloodshed. Winner of the 1996 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
16. To Love Someone Secretly (
By Hiyawu and others (
17. One-Third of Me (
By Stephanie Hsiao (
18. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (
By J.K. Rowling Translated by Peng Chien-wen (
19. Pleasure Takes All (
By Chang Man-chuan (
20. Dream Catcher (捕夢網),
By Liu Yung (劉墉) A collection of 54 very short essays and stories from Taiwan's own maestro of inspirational writings. This one covers inspiration you can find in religion, plants, animals, love, among other things.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
The following three paragraphs are just some of what the local Chinese-language press is reporting on breathlessly and following every twist and turn with the eagerness of a soap opera fan. For many English-language readers, it probably comes across as incomprehensibly opaque, so bear with me briefly dear reader: To the surprise of many, former pop singer and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-lawmaker Yu Tien (余天) of the Taiwan Normal Country Promotion Association (TNCPA) at the last minute dropped out of the running for committee chair of the DPP’s New Taipei City chapter, paving the way for DPP legislator Su
It’s hard to know where to begin with Mark Tovell’s Taiwan: Roads Above the Clouds. Having published a travelogue myself, as well as having contributed to several guidebooks, at first glance Tovell’s book appears to inhabit a middle ground — the kind of hard-to-sell nowheresville publishers detest. Leaf through the pages and you’ll find them suffuse with the purple prose best associated with travel literature: “When the sun is low on a warm, clear morning, and with the heat already rising, we stand at the riverside bike path leading south from Sanxia’s old cobble streets.” Hardly the stuff of your
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby