Geographic Information
Yeh Shih-tao Archive
Yeh Shih-tao (1925-2008), born in Tainan, moved to Kaohsiung in the 1960s. When he was in high school during the Japanese colonial period, he published novels in Japanese and showed his talent for wri ...
Li Tung Archive
Li Tung (1953-2-004), real name Lai Xi-an, was born in Hualien and then settled in Yilan. After resigning from his job as a senior high school teacher in 1989, he became a full-time writer. Before his ...
Qiu Miao-jin Archive
Qiu Miao-jin(1969-1995) is a representative writer of classical homosexual literature. During her school days, she was the victorious champion of literary awards. In 1991, she published her first nove ...
Walis Nokan Archive
In 1961, Walis Nokan was born in the native Atayal tribe, Mihu, in the southern part of Xueshan (literally “Snow Mountain”) in north-central Taiwan (For sure, he didn’t know he would ...
LIN HAI-YIN Archive
Lin Haiyin (1918-2001) was Hakka from Miaoli County of northern Taiwan. She moved to Beijing with her family when she was young. The experiences of living in Beijing became the major source of the bac ...
YAO YI-WEI Archive
Yao Yi-wei (1922-1997), whose real name is Yao Gong-wei, grew up in Poyang, Jiangxi. In 1941, he was admitted to Xiamen University. He first studied electrical engineering and later transferred to the ...
Hong Qi-sheng Archive
Hong Qi-sheng, born Pangui, courtesy name Yueqiao, was born in the late Qing Dynasty. A Lugang native, he changed his name to Ru and courtesy name to Qi-sheng because he was dissatisfied with the Qing ...
Shaih Li-fa Archive
Shaih Li-fa's pen was a tool used to paint images, record history, craft novels, and write poetry. Shaih Li-fa was born in 1938 in Dadaocheng, Taipei. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts ...
WANG WEN-HSING Archive
Wang Wen-hsing is one of the most distinguished writers in contemporary Taiwan. His two novels, Family Catastrophe and Backed Against the Sea, embody some quintessential elements of modernist aestheti ...
Shih Shu-ching Archive
Author Shih Shu-ching gained notice for her outlandish, unusual storytelling when she first launched her writing career: she excelled in a modernistic and existentialistic narrative prose of illusions ...
Li Yongping Archive
Li Yongping is an outstanding Sinophone Malaysian novelist, who grew up in North Borneo, a British colony, studied in Taiwan and the US successively, and finally settled down in Taiwan. Li’s mul ...
Ping Lu Archive
Novelist and cultural critic Ping Lu was born in 1953 in Gushan, Kaohsiung. under the given name Lu Ping. Her creative works touch upon a variety of themes related to politics, society, culture, gende ...
Liu Ka-shiang Archive
Liu Ka-shiang’s literary career began with poetry. In the early 1980s, he sparked the “Liu Ka-shiang craze” with his critical view of the politics that reflected Taiwan’s socia ...
