A collection of ten short stories which have for guiding the evocation of a magician installed in the heart of the Taipei market. The narrator, a young child, searches for all those who may have had contact with this character to collect their testimony. Good book award 2012.

160 micro-fictions of less than a page in which humor and poetry, real and imaginary intermingle. The Taiwanese writer offers a succession of stories and dramas drawn from his readings, his intimate experiences, his observation of things and people but also from the Chinese tradition linked in particular to the martial arts.

A history teacher and a young intellectual lead a quiet but dreary existence, drowning in their solitude despite the presence, real or fantasized, of those around them. They do not know that each is imagining the life of the other. This is the author's first novel.

'Guan-gong Says Yes' is a tale full of humor and self-mockery. It traces the original journey of a brilliant young woman who channels all her stubbornness into solving a personal equation with several unknown variables, and moreover, in Chinese.

Collection of six short stories which question the excesses of contemporary society between technicality and normativity of identities.

Ten texts representative of the Taiwanese literary scene since 1987. The authors address the political history of the island, from Japanese colonization to the process of democratization, as well as its social history, from the aboriginal movements to those defending workers' rights, women, the LGBT community, students or even environmental struggles.

Syaman Rapongan, a writer-fisherman belonging to the Tao indigenous group (from Orchid Island, Taiwan), delivers in this autobiographically inspired story a social chronicle of Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. This period is the scene of a youth made of identity wandering and discrimination for the author who leaves his native island for the "civilized" metropolis. Syaman Rapongan places the cultural heritage of the Formosan natives in a transpacific but also Taiwanese perspective.

A tale of the story of Wang Chi-fang's family, from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century. This is a coming-of-age novel in which food is a metaphor for Taiwan's hybrid condition.

Retraces 11 destinies, from childhood to the final shipwreck. The author paints a picture of Thai society in the fifties, transcending exoticism to reach a universal humanism.

Ten stories from episodes of the past lives of Buddha Gotama. Each of them is connected, according to Thai tradition, to a cardinal virtue: renunciation, courage, compassion, resolute faith, wisdom, moral conduct, patience, equanimity, honesty and gift. Preface by Nalini Balbir