1. The Human Nature You Have to Know 你不可不知道的人性
By Liu Yung (劉墉)
The author reveals the dark side of human nature by telling stories that happened to the people around him. He also helps readers to better understand humanity's weaknesses.
2. I am a Piece of Cloud in the Sky 我是天空的一片雲
By Hsu Chin-mo (徐志摩)
Hsu was a romantic poet and pursued love, freedom, and beauty all his life. This collection records the passions of his life.
3. The Dreadful Truth: Part 1 令人戰慄的格林童話
By Kiryu Misao
The author shows the darker side of society and human emotion that are the source of seemingly beautiful fairy tales.
4. The First Intimate Encounter 第一次的親密接觸
By Tsai Chih-heng (蔡智恆)
A love story that is becoming quite common in modern society: an Internet romance.
5. Fables to Help You Deal with the Difficulties in Your Life 突破人生困境的寓言
By Lin Ching-hsuan (林清玄)
A collection of short stories that advise people on how to deal with the adversities of life.
6. Polish Your Wisdom with Humor 用幽默雕塑智慧
By Lai Shu-hai (賴淑惠)
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. A guide to spice up your life with humor.
7. The Dreadful Truth: Part 2 令人戰慄的格林童話 Part II
By Kiryu Misao
A second installment from the author who looks at the grim side of fairy tales.
8. Find Your Own Happiness 快樂是自找的
By Chu Kai-lei (朱凱蕾)
The author shows the way to joy and happiness through many acute observations.
9. Reflections on Chinese Culture and Society 百年思索
By Lung Ying-tai (龍應台)
Lung's latest work is a thoughtful reflection of problems in modern Taiwanese society.
10. Women: Get Rich Easily! 輕輕鬆鬆變富婆
By Liu Tai-fen (劉台芬)
Becoming a millionaire is no longer a dream! This book shows women how to get rich by making wise investments.
11. The Little Prince 小王子
By Antoine De Saint-Exupery
A pocket-sized book with both the Chinese and English translations of the famous French story.
12. The Little Prince 小王子
By Antoine De Saint-Exupery
An adventure of a little boy and a pilot. Saint-Exupery subtly touches upon the paradoxes of life through the characters' friendship.
13. Motivational Experts 激勵高手
By Tai Chen-chih (戴晨志)
This collection of 31 short stories highlights the wisdom we need to survive adverse conditions.
14. The Great White Tower 白色巨塔
By Hou Wen-yung (侯文詠)
A medical accident in a hospital complicates a power struggle between two factions.
15. Face the Beauty and Sadness of Life 面對人生的美麗與哀愁
By Liu Yung (劉墉)
A collection of essays that illuminate the way for people to face both the dark and the bright sides of life.
16. Love in 7-ELEVEN 7-ELEVEN 之戀
By Tsai Chih-heng (蔡智恆)
Eight contemporary stories that reflect modern society's view about relationships.
17. Seize Your Own Stars 抓住屬於你的那顆小星星
By Liu Yung (劉墉)
Advice on how to get a grip on your life.
18. Love, Poems 愛情.詩流域
By Chang Man-chuan (張曼娟)
This creative collage of stories combines the complexity of love in modern society with the passion of Chinese classical poetry.
19. Love e-Century, Because of You 愛情E世紀,因為有你
By Wu Jo-chuan (吳若權)
A must-have for the love-lorn.
20. A Rose Garden, a Dream 未曾許諾的玫瑰花園
By Huang Ming-chien (黃明堅)
Romantic illustrations and beautiful prose bring readers into the fantasy of dreams.
The canonical shot of an East Asian city is a night skyline studded with towering apartment and office buildings, bright with neon and plastic signage, a landscape of energy and modernity. Another classic image is the same city seen from above, in which identical apartment towers march across the city, spilling out over nearby geography, like stylized soldiers colonizing new territory in a board game. Densely populated dynamic conurbations of money, technological innovation and convenience, it is hard to see the cities of East Asia as what they truly are: necropolises. Why is this? The East Asian development model, with
June 16 to June 22 The following flyer appeared on the streets of Hsinchu on June 12, 1895: “Taipei has already fallen to the Japanese barbarians, who have brought great misery to our land and people. We heard that the Japanese occupiers will tax our gardens, our houses, our bodies, and even our chickens, dogs, cows and pigs. They wear their hair wild, carve their teeth, tattoo their foreheads, wear strange clothes and speak a strange language. How can we be ruled by such people?” Posted by civilian militia leader Wu Tang-hsing (吳湯興), it was a call to arms to retake
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The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a fine-tuned machine of a movie that, in its most riveting racing scenes, approaches a kind of high-speed splendor. Kosinski, who last endeavored to put moviegoers in the seat of a fighter jet in Top Gun: Maverick, has moved to the open cockpits of Formula One with much the same affection, if not outright need, for speed. A lot of the same team is back. Jerry Bruckheimer produces. Ehren Kruger, a co-writer on Maverick, takes sole credit here. Hans Zimmer, a co-composer previously, supplies the thumping