World Literature from Taiwan Book Series

Editorial Board: Pei-yin Lin (The 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:

Bone, Skin, Flesh by Yen Ai-lin (顏艾琳), translated by Jenn Marie Nunes (July 2025)
Tomato Street and Other Warzone by Lien Ming-Wei (連明偉), translated by Brandon Yen
The Khitans’ Roses: Selected Poems of Hsi Muren by Hsi Muren (席慕容), translated by Tze-lan Deborah Sang