Taiwan Literature: Special Issue in Memory of Tzeng Ching-Wen

by Kuo-Ch'ing Tu (Editor), Terence Russell (Editor)

256 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2019

About the author

Kuo-ch'ing Tu was a Taiwanese poet, scholar, translator, critic, and professor. He was a Professor Emeritus in the East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he held the Lai Ho and Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair from its establishment in 2003 until his retirement in 2020. He was also founder and director of the Center for Taiwan Studies. In 1996, he founded the biannual journal Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series.

Reviews

[Ocean G · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice collection of very Taiwanese stories. A great introduction to an author I knew nothing about (although I now see I have his novel "three legged horse" in my wishlist). This also includes some children's stories, which seemed a bit weird to me, but were certainly entertaining. Otherwise it consists mostly of nostalgic glimpses of a changing Taiwan.

My favorite story was Green Pepper Seedlings.