World Literature from Taiwan Book Series
Editorial Board: Pei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong), Wen-chi Li (University of Oxford)
Taiwan is a vivacious multi-ethnic island shaped by various cultures. Its history intersects with the Spanish and Dutch colonialisms. After being ruled respectively by the Qing government and Japan, it underwent the United States-leaning Nationalist rule and witnessed a burgeoning indigenization turn particularly since the 1990s. Despite its multilingual nature, contemporary Taiwan has been an important site of literary inspirations, production, and consumption, for Sinophone writers from Hong Kong, China, and Southeast Asia. To capture and highlight the palimpsestic trajectory in which literature from Taiwan constitutes an integral part of world literature, we propose this series beyond the rigid ethno-nationalist sense of literature. Intended for a general audience, the series is dedicated to introducing cutting-edge literature created in, related to, or influence by, Taiwan, into English.
Forthcoming titles:
Dynasties/Saints by Chen Li (陳黎), translated by Elaine Wong [April 2025]
The Season When Flowers Bloom by Yang Shuangzi (楊双子) [May 2025]
Alien by Sun Wei-min (孫維民), translated by Colin Bramwell and We-chi Li [March 2025]
Tomato Street and Other Warzones by Lien Ming-wei (連明偉), translated by Brandon Yen [October 2025]
Bone, Skin, Flesh by Yen Ai-lin (顏艾琳), translated by Jenn Marie Nunes [May 2025]
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- Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
Daughters
- GBP 12.99
- by Ling Yü Translated by Nicholas Y. H. Wong Their swimming postures are unique Some foam at the mouth, some angle their feet to the sky But they don’t die In the dauntlessly crashing waves ------From Daughter W Ling Yü’s lyrical and rhythmic poetry invites readers into meditations on feminine roles, family values, and the delicate balance between individuals and society.…
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A Platform with No Timetable
- GBP 15.99
- Collection of Short Stories by Huang Chun-Ming Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt A Taiwanese businessman is forced to serve as a pimp for a group of seven Japanese men in his home village of Chiao-hsi. The formerly well-respected Ah-Le and his wife bear the weight of shame that his impotence has brought upon them. A young man drives…
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The Tree Fort on Carnation Lane
- GBP 13.99
- by Horace Ho Daniel Fang’s mid-thirties are marked by the birth of his daughter and the death of a childhood friend. His daughter’s birth and infancy reminds him of his own boyhood, his friend’s death of the good times he had with back in their old neighbourhood. They were the kids from the wrong side of the temple, kids…
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Raise the Bottles
- GBP 15.99
- Collection of Short Stories by Huang Chun-Ming Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt From trains to classrooms to mountains, in this collection of short stories, Huang Chunming traverses across the Taiwan island to deliver his readers bewitching stories of love, loss, and family. Each story crafts a poignant snapshot depicting private minds in public spaces. A young man has…
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The Ventriloquist’s Daughter
- GBP 12.99
- by Lin Man-Chiu Found in Translation Anthology 2015 After the tragic death of Liur's mother, her father, a thwarted artist working as a doctor in the family hospital, is overcome with grief. He goes to study in America, leaving six-year-old Liur in the care of her grandparents, promising to return with a special doll for her. But instead of…
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Again I See the Gaillardias
- GBP 12.99
- by Li Tong Winner of the 1986 Hong Chien-Chuan Children's Literature Award and the 1989 Yang Huan Literature Award Through misunderstanding, sympathy, reconciliation and love, seven schoolchildren forged an abiding friendship in their hometown Penghu, a cluster of islands in the Taiwan Strait. Brought together by their Arts and Crafts teacher, the children learned to cherish their friendship and…
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Masked Dolls
- GBP 12.99
- Author: Shih Chiung-Yu "Masked Dolls is one of those rare books which after reading reveals itself to be greater than the sum of its parts. Brutal, intense, fascinating." - The Writes of Woman "Set in turn-of-the-century Seoul and Taipei, Shih Chiung-yu’s novel depicts what it means to be a woman reconciling the scars of a tortured past with living in…
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Wedding in Autumn
- GBP 11.99
- by Shih Chiung-Yu Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all over mainland China are doomed to live out their days in exile in Taitung County, along the southeastern shore of the island of Taiwan. The three novellas in this collection tell stories of Chinese men who were forced to leave their…
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The Bear Whispers to Me
- GBP 12.99
- by Chang Ying-Tai WINNER OF THE 2015 LENNOX ROBINSON LITERARY AWARD Selected by BookTrust for the "Books we like: June 2015" (age 12+). A reclusive young boy stumbles upon his father’s diary. Filled with drawings, photos and anecdotes, the diary reveals an alpine world that his father once inhabited as a child: where tribes were fashioned by tree spirits; animals could be spoken to;…
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As Flowers Bloom and Wither
- GBP 15.99
- by Ying-Tai Chang As Flowers Bloom and Wither tells a bold and stirring story with great sensitivity. The protagonist, whose true identity was enshrouded in an enormous plot, must brave the thorns of history in order to unravel the threads of this enigma. Will the twists and turns of fate obscure the ultimate truth? How many more “truths” are…
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