Extract from the preface by Gérard Macé:
“Live, clever, intelligent, curious about all forms of life, open to all cultures, Aurélien Rossanino is a perfect and subjective (or perfect because subjective) guide to this island that I known under the name of Formosa, and which Aurélien adopted out of love, after having traveled the China and Japan. We will see it appear in the following pages, under the appearance of a teacher, a radio host, an editor. A great reader of Jules Verne, he founded a magazine that he called Passepartout. He therefore has a valid passport, and the form magic to transform eighty days into eighty words. »
Aurélien Rossanino was born in 1990 in Nice and currently lives in Taipei where he founded, with his companion, the French-Taiwanese editions Passepartout巴斯巴度. Podcast host for Radio Taiwan International and Ghost Island Media, his favorite field is music independent in Asia which he regularly addresses in his writings for the magazine Revue & Corrected. He is the author of a monograph devoted to the Japanese metal band Sigh (Sigh monogatari, White Truck).
Gérard Macé is a French poet, essayist, translator and photographer born in Paris on December 4, 1946. His work mixes various literary genres and is relatively unclassifiable. He is notably a writer of living and creative memory. He is also a photographer of the floating world.