This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both established and young writers. It not only engages with the evolving trends of literary Taiwan, but also promotes the translocal consciousness and cultural diversity of the island state and beyond. Focusing on the new directions and trends of Taiwan literature, this edited book fits into Taiwan studies, Sinophone studies, and Asian studies. 

Dr. Chia-rong Wu specializes in Sinophone literature and film through the lens of postcolonial theories, Indigenous studies, diaspora, and ecocriticism. Dr. Wu is the author of Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond (Cambria Press, 2016) and Remapping the Contested Sinosphere: The Cross-cultural Landscape and Ethnoscape of Taiwan (Cambria Press, 2020). Additionally, Dr. Wu is serving on the International Advisory Board of Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature (Routledge Book Series), Cultural History Editorial Advisory Board (Bloomsbury Book Series), and the Advisory Board of Taiwan Lit (online journal centering on studies of Taiwan literature and culture).
Professor Ming-ju Fan is an established scholar in the field of Taiwan literature study. Her research focus is on feminism, literary theory, and modern and contemporary novels. She is the author of multiple books, including Critic Artisan (Unitas, 2019), Spatial/Textual/Politics// (Linking Books, 2015), Literary GeographySpatial Reading of Taiwanese Literature (Rye Field, 2008), Chronological Searches of Taiwanese Womens Fiction (Rye Field, 2002& 2008), and Like a box of chocolate: Criticisms on Contemporary Literature and Culture(Ink Publishing, 2005). She is also the co-editor of The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2014). She has received honors such as Ministry of Science and Technology Research Award and Reward Special Talents multiple times. Moreover, she has been serving as the co-editor of Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies since 2010.

Introduction: Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century

Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan

Part One: The Reconstruction of History and Politics

1. Democracy Detoured and a Narrator Detached in the Political Fiction of Lai Xiangyin

Ming-ju Fan

2. A Venture into Taiwans Political Changes and Historical Memories

Through Li Angs Beef Noodle Soup

Yenna Wu

3. Homegrown Stories: Gan Yao-mings Fiction

Bert Scruggs

Part Two: Genres, Forms, and Ideas

4. Clipping Wings: A Chronicle and Wang Wen-hsings Art

Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

5. Xia Yu, the Supreme Stylist

Michelle Yeh

6. Everything Everywhere All at Once: The New Taiwan in Egoyan Zhengs Science Fiction

Wen-chi Li

Part Three: Reflections upon Gender and Sexuality

7. Chen Xue, Missing Fathers, and Queer Alternatives

Carlos Rojas

8. Sexuality and Trauma: Zhang Yixuans The Love that is Temporary and A Farewell Letter

LinshanJiang

9. Liglav Awu, Child of the Double Country: the Clarion Voice of Indigenous Women in Taiwan

Fanny Caron

Part Four: On Ethnicities and Races

10. Through an Indigenous Lens: Syaman Rapongans Rewriting of Oceanic Taiwan

Chia-rong Wu

11. Migrants of Today, Migrants of Tomorrow in Wu Ming-yis Literary Works

Gwennaël Gaffric

12. Anti-Japan or Becoming-Japanese: Li Yongpings Writing on Japan in Postcolonial Taiwan

Min-xu Zhan

13. Huang Chong-kai and the Taiwanese Novel of Ideas

Nicholas Y. H. Wong

Part Five: Taiwan Literature in the Age of Globalization

14. Escape and Return: Ghostly Representations of Home and Abroad in Kevin Chens Summer Trilogy

Pei-yin Lin

15. Sketches on aBlank Slate: Shawna Yang Ryans Future-oriented Memories of the Past

Irmy Schweiger

16. National Border on the Tip of Tongue: The Limit of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Li Kotomis Count Down to Five Seconds of Crescent Moon

Sophia Huei-Ling Chen