Leona Chen's Book of Cord marks the emergence of a powerful new Taiwanese-American voice among contemporary Asian-American poets, as a small, slim book of experimental poetry...
The defeat of a recent push by language and literature scholars to reform the teaching of Chinese in Taiwan has had surprising implications. Namely, despite the defeat of a push by the Association for Taiwan Literature to reduce the amount of classical Chinese currently taught in Taiwanese, this drew comment from high-ranking Chinese government officials including An Fengshan of the Taiwan Affairs Office. It seems, then, that the debate over the teaching of classical Chinese in Taiwan has become significant enough to draw attention from China...
A recent statement by the Association for Taiwan Literature calling on the Ministry of Education to change the education curriculum in Taiwan to focus less on traditional Chinese classics and instead to draw on materials more suitable to contemporary Taiwan is the end result of a series of debates in past months about differences between Taiwanese and Chinese literature, as well as language learning in Taiwan...
A recent debate about Taiwanese literature that took place largely on social media in September is illustrative of the unification/independence divide in Taiwanese literature circles and academia. But in this debate, can we also see a shared logic between the pro-unification Left and KMT apologists?...
Prometheus Unbound: When Formosa Reclaims the World would primarily be an argument for a Left Taiwanese nationalism that advocates for independence, as distinctively colored by the Sunflower Movement...
Irrespective of its content, Petrus Liu’s Queer Marxism in Two Chinas probably would have found success on the basis of its title containing the words “Queer,” “Marxism,” and “China”. That may be the point...
