Despite the proliferation of science in the nation's development, the ancient craft of fortune-telling continues to draw those seeking answers to their problems
By Graham Norris
The nation's rapid development has been based on the modern, the scientific and the technological, with the youthful population of this "green silicon island" more at home with mobile phones, computers and other gadgets than many of their Western counterparts.

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By Gavin Phipps
Strolling through the quiet narrow laneways and along the hiking trials in and around the postcard-like Taipei County township of Jinguashih today it's hard to imagine that anything untoward could ever have taken place in the sleepy little backwater hamlet.

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"Tanners of Taiwan" is ostensibly about the leather industry in the Tainan area, but veers off into the politics of nationhood
By Bradley Winterton
Scott Simon is in the process of becoming a veteran Taiwan-watcher. Two years ago he published Sweet and Sour: Life-worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs (reviewed in Taipei Times Jan. 4, 2004) and he contributed an article on gay identities in Taiwan to Taiwan: The Minor Arts of Daily Life (reviewed in Taipei Times Aug. 1, 2004).

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A fast-growing industry caters to authors who want their manuscript to become a paperback, with a custom cover design and an International Standard Book Number
By Sarah Glazer
When Amy Fisher finished writing her memoir about shooting her lover's wife, she told her agent not to send the manuscript to New York publishers. Instead, Fisher, who made headlines in 1992 as the 17-year-old "Long Island Lolita,'' turned to iUniverse in Lincoln, Neb. The company charges authors several hundred dollars to convert a manuscript into a book and make it available for sale online.

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