Balestier Academic
New titles:
Isle of Movement: Migration and Shifting Ethnoscapes in Taiwan edited by Hsieh Hsin-Chin, Adina Zemanek
and Chang Ti-Han (September 2026)
Isle of All Beings: Changing Ecologies in Taiwan edited by Zhan Min-Xu, Chang Ti-Han and Hsieh Hsin-Chin (September 2026)
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- Academic, Humanities and Social Sciences, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
Isle of All Beings: Changing Ecologies in Taiwan
- edited by Zhan Min-Xu, Chang Ti-Han and Hsieh Hsin-Chin Isle of All Beings: Changing Ecologies in Taiwan explores how natural disasters and ecological disturbances have shaped Taiwan's environments, societies, and cultural imagination. Bringing together scholarly essays and literary works, the volume examines earthquakes, mudslides, floods, droughts, and tsunamis, tracing how different forms of environmental disruption are experienced, represented, and understood in…
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- Academic, Humanities and Social Sciences, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
Isle of Movement: Migration and Shifting Ethnoscapes in Taiwan
- edited by Hsieh Hsin-Chin, Adina Zemanek and Chang Ti-Han Isle of Movement: Migration and Shifting Ethnoscapes in Taiwan explores how migration has continuously reshaped Taiwan's ethnic landscape and cultural identities across different historical periods. Bringing together literary works and scholarly essays, this anthology traces the movements of Japanese settlers and Taiwan-born Japanese, Mainlanders in military dependents' villages, Malaysian Chinese intellectuals…
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- Academic, Humanities and Social Sciences, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan
- edited by Chang Ti-Han and Hsieh Hsin-Chin Isle of the Austronesian: Indigeneity, World-Making and Taiwan brings together powerful literary and scholarly voices to explore the dynamic contours of Indigeneity in Taiwan. This anthology features poetry, stories, and essays that reflect on land, memory, identity, and ecological belongings. Highlighting perspectives often overlooked-queer, urban, and female Indigenous experiences-it showcases the richness and…
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- Academic, Humanities and Social Sciences, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium
- edited by Sim Wai Chew and Yow Cheun Hoe Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium presents an array of essential readings from the local canon. A compelling argument for the comparative study of Singapore’s multilingual literature, the compendium aims to encourage inter-ethnic, inter-lingual, and inter-cultural transfer through the study of cultural expression across language and cultural divides within Singapore’s literary scene. Apart…
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