This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. Gathering a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s, it aims to complement Feii Lu’s Taiwan C...(展开全部)

This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. Gathering a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s, it aims to complement Feii Lu’s Taiwan C...(展开全部)

Following the recent success of Taiwanese film directors, such as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee and Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film is raising its profile in contemporary cinema. This collection presents an exciting and ambitious foray into the cultural politics of contemporary Taiwan film that goes beyond the auterist mode, the nation-state argument and vestiges of...(展开全部)

This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects--maps, public art, parks--Joseph Allen peels back layers of obscured history to reveal forces that caused cultural objects to be celebrated, despised, destroyed, or transformed as Taipei experienced successive regime changes...(展开全部)

美籍台裔新銳作家林韜（Tao Lin）繼《咿咿咿》後，備受文壇矚目新作！ 以寫實的手法，銳利呈現現代都市青年尋找自我的困頓。 跟著主角Paul從曼哈頓的藝文觀察一路來到他原生家庭的根──台灣台北。讀者將在此地見證一段關係的幻滅，而另一段透過網路開花的戀情，則會意外地在拉斯維加斯修成正果。 在這段漫長旅程中，無論是整夜行駛於東岸、到南方行竊、去西岸閱讀或是在俄亥俄州進入一家不怎麼樣的雜貨店，過程皆有攝影記錄。影片中也可見到大量毒品，以及一對年輕愛侶學習著如何分享彼此的生活。 這部彷彿在謳歌或是感嘆我們現在生活方式的一部小說，雖然不確定是否能為愛、生存、青春或身處在社會邊緣的人們提供任何確切的解答，但可以肯定的是，帶有半自傳色彩的《Taipei》將為讀者帶來最直接利索的閱讀體驗。（文／博客來編譯） From one of this generation’...(展开全部)

美籍台裔新銳作家林韜（Tao Lin）繼《咿咿咿》後，備受文壇矚目新作！ 以寫實的手法，銳利呈現現代都市青年尋找自我的困頓。 跟著主角Paul從曼哈頓的藝文觀察一路來到他原生家庭的根──台灣台北。讀者將在此地見證一段關係的幻滅，而另一段透過網路開花的戀情，則會意外地在拉斯維加斯修成正果。 在這段漫長旅程中，無論是整夜行駛於東岸、到南方行竊、去西岸閱讀或是在俄亥俄州進入一家不怎麼樣的雜貨店，過程皆有攝影記錄。影片中也可見到大量毒品，以及一對年輕愛侶學習著如何分享彼此的生活。 這部彷彿在謳歌或是感嘆我們現在生活方式的一部小說，雖然不確定是否能為愛、生存、青春或身處在社會邊緣的人們提供任何確切的解答，但可以肯定的是，帶有半自傳色彩的《Taipei》將為讀者帶來最直接利索的閱讀體驗。（文／博客來編譯） From one of this generation’...(展开全部)

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION's Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011*** Interview with the author: http: //dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries/ A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how ...(展开全部)

Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern ...(展开全部)

Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern ...(展开全部)